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Chapter 3 . Getting into the Desktop 119 Figure 3-15: In Slackware, you can change window managers using the xwmconfig command. Select the window manager you want to try from that screen and select OK. That window manager will start the next time you run startx (provided you don t override it by creating your own .xinitrc file). Here are your choices: . Xfce (www.xfce.org) The xfce window manager is designed to be lightweight and fast. . Blackbox (www.blackboxwm.sourceforge.net) Another lightweight window manager that strives to require few library dependencies so it can run in many environments. Offers many features for setting colors and styles . FluxBox (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net) Based on Blackbox (0.61.1), FluxBox adds nice features such as window tabs (where you can join together multiple windows so they appear as multiple tabs on a single window). It also includes an icon bar and adds some useful mouse features (such as using your mouse wheel to change workspaces). . Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Window Maker is a clone of the NEXTSTEP graphical interface, a popular UNIX workstation of the 1980s and 1990s. It is a particularly attractive window manager, with support for themes, various window decorations, and features for changing backgrounds, animations, and adding applets (called docapps). . FVWM (www.fvwm.org) This window manager supports full internationalization, window manager hints, and improved font features. Interesting features include window shading in all directions (even diagonal) and side titles (including text displayed vertically). . FVWM-95 (http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net) A version of FVWM that was created to look and feel like Windows 95.