Source: productivelinux.com

It’s true that the easiest to way to get the full desktop feel on your EEE is to install the full KDE desktop, but if you’re not afraid to get a little down and dirty with some simple config files, give this a try. You’ll end up with a sleek, elegant desktop without the overhead of KDE. We’ll customize the built-in window manager IceWM and we’ll install Rox-filer to handle our desktop icons and provide a nice file manager.