Note: If not otherwise mentioned, packages were installed from official repo. So that is the setup I designed my own “desktop environment” for. It connects to the internet via a Huawei surfstick. My netbook is an Acer 1215b EeePC with an 1.65 GHz AMD APU, 6 GB of RAM, a 500 GB HDD and a 1366×768 display. And Openbox can look pretty cool, if you look at distributions such as Crunchbang. Making your desktop your living room and creating your own desktop environment from the components you prefer. That is not very cool, huh? Well, actually, it is pretty cool, cause you can add the missing components yourself. My window manager of choice is Openbox, it’s small, it’s light and it comes with nothing, logging into a new Openbox session you end up with an empty desktop with no clock, no taskbar, no widgets, there is just the menu, called root menu. In contrast to a desktop environment a window manager contains just the “frames” for the applications but in itself no applications. The solution to the problem is a window manager. Xfce and LXDE are cool but they bring a lot of applications that I don’t like or want. While I really like Unity on my desktop computer, it is a bit heavy on the netbook. This was done on Ubuntu 14.04 but should work in a similar fashion in other *buntus or Linux distros. Difficulty Level: a bit advanced, you should at least be comfortable with editing config files manually.
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