I just discovered a very cool package that is available for the Debian Linux distribution, the GWorkspace desktop, the GNU Workspace manager. This depicted in the screenshot to the right is an interesting desktop that comes with a file manager and when loaded with Window Maker gives you a fast desktop and you can create new files on the desktop with the file menu you get by right-clicking on the desktop. This is quite different to fluxbox or Windowmaker, but this desktop manager is a file manager rather than a simple window manager as it needs Windowmaker running to be more usable. This is my ~/.xsession file that I use to run this desktop.
wmaker & exec GWorkspace |
Just put this file in your home folder then select the system default desktop session in GDM and the desktop will load as requested. Type this command to install this on Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install gworkspace.app gnustep-base-doc gworkspace-apps-wrappers |
The screenshot below shows what the file manager looks like in this desktop environment.
This is what the desktop looks like, I am running Windowmaker with this as the WM and it looks very nice indeed. You could probably run Openbox or Fluxbox instead.
