Fluxbox Window Manager Review

Fluxbox is a minimalist window manager based on Blackbox, which is, in turn, is another minimalist window manager. What do I mean by minimalist? Well, the aim of the most popular window managers, as far as I can tell, is to make it easy to get around. The result is a lot of choice of buttons and icons and menus. This makes getting around easier for some computer users. However, there are some who find all this to be distracting. All these choices, opine some, including this author, clutter up the desktop. Though both the KDE and GNOME projects have improved greatly in terms of memory usage, there is still a increased memory load when using them compared with a window manager like Fluxbox.