About "how the GUI should look like after installation!"

[Garrett Cooper]

illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss <elessar at bsdforen.de> wrote:
>
>> > I logged in and typed
>> > 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!).
>> > Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells.
>> > That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture (greying
>> > grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition image). There're just
>> > four squared box (shell).
>
>> You need to install a window manager.
>
> twm(1) idn't good enough for you?
>
> evilwm
> blackbox
> e16 (or whatever they have changed the name too this week)
> aewm
>
> are all fairly degenerate wastes of memory.
>
> But it will not do much good unless you
> have also bothered to install browsers and such.
>
Try xfce4. It's fairly light and more functional than most WM's / DE's 
for it's size.

Don't install the meta package though, or trim off stuff that you don't 
need as you feel fit.

-Garrett