Looking to use fluxbox with Trisquel 5

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lansburyslido
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A rejoint: 08/29/2011

If I want to have fluxbox as my desktop manager is it just a matter of installing fluxbox from the repos and maybe changing the default session?

And is there any recommended format of Trisquel to use with fluxbox? Mini etc?

Ta.

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A rejoint: 07/24/2010

Well, if no user of your computer wants another window manager, you neither need GNOME (in the regular Trisquel ISO) nor LXDE (in Trisquel Mini). You can start from the the NetInstall and install everything by hand (assuming you know how to use the apt-get command).

That said, a desktop is not only a window manager. The regular Trisquel offers applications such as:
* LibreOffice
* Firefox (re-branded as Abrowser)
* Totem (a video player)
* Exaile (a music player)
* Nautilus (to browse files)
* FileRoller (to compress and uncompress archives)
* Evince (a PDF reader)
* Evolution (a mail reader)
* GIMP (to edit raster images)
* Brasero (to burn CDs/DVDs)
, whereas Trisquel Mini has a more lightweight selection (in the same order as above and as far as I remeber):
* Abiword (text-processing only)
* Midori (Web browser using Webkit)
* MPlayer
* Audacious (a player à la Winamp... the old versions)
* Thunar (Xfce's file browser)
* Xarchiver
* ePDFViewer
* Sylpheed
* mtPaint
* Xfburn

If you like one of these two selections of software you had better install the related ISO, add Fluxbox and remove the unnecessary other window manager.

lansburyslido
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A rejoint: 08/29/2011

Ta for the detailed reply!

Now installing Trisquel 5 Gnome. Will look at adding fluxbox to the available sessions when installed.