> > Some question(s) on that.
> > It would seem that gnome is important to Beowulf - - -yes?
> > I have been running light weight desktops like LXMT (I think it was)
> > and now LXQT
> > after I found the KDE was just too weighty.
> > So I'll start with that one question - - - - does Beowulf mean that I
> > need to run Gnome?
>
> No. I'm running a custom installed Beowulf (started with a basic
> terminal system) with just a window manager (Openbox) and a single
> panel with menu (LXPanel). Works just fine. Lightweight, too.
>

I'll second that - doing exactly the same - openbox and lxpanel, not even
a filemanager.