Ubuntu-13.04 -- disabling ALL compiz desktop effects?

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:57:39AM -0400, Antonio Sun wrote
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > If you feel that Cinnamon still sucks too many cicles, try XFCE. It's a
> > nice window manager, eats very little, and works. But if you want to go all
> > the way to frugality, install fluxbox. I used it for 2-3 years on my Ubuntu
> > 5.04, ages ago... Takes a little to get used to it, but as soon as you get
> > to know how to make effective use of it, it's pretty good.
> >
> 
> +1 for fluxbox. Good for Desktop, within VM, or even remote X sessions.
> Extremely fast and very configurable. And, extremely stable too. I've been
> using it for nearly 10 years, and seldom need to "revert" to whatever
> Desktop manager that comes by default.

  Ditto for ICEWM, which I use.  There are several lightweight WMs that
are very usable on netbooks.  See
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_Manager for a partial list.

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