On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:21 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:45:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 00:10 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:57:27PM -0500, Joel Ewy wrote: > > > > > > > > For what it's worth, fvwm would probably still fall under the category of > > > > a Window Manager rather than a full-blown desktop environment like KDE or > > > > Gnome. But yes, it does do pretty well on low-resource computers. I > > > > still use fvwm-95 on an old '486 laptop with 20M RAM running RedHat 5.1 > > > > and I suspect it would also be a good choice on a '68k machine. > > > > > > I am using fvwm on my 2GHz Athlon and P4 machines with 1GB RAM each. Do you > > > have to switch to a memory wasting wm once you have a faster machine? fvwm > > > rocks, unfortunately the current version in testing does not like my config > > > anymore that I started writing 10 years ago. So maybe I have to switch to > > > gnome, which already can do a few things, that fvwm can do, or start reading > > > about what changed in the new versions. Until I decide, I am keeping an old > > > fvwm version around. > > > > What are your primary apps? > > xemacs, tex, octave, R, gcc, bash, perl, mozilla, wajig, xmms, mutt, openoffice, > geda, simh, ... > > Actually, I have lots more installed, my /usr partition is 4GB, and it is > 90% full again. I should use 6 or maybe 10GB next time. If you use mozilla & openoffice a lot, then you might not see much extra RAM usage if you were to use a bare XFce, since they (mozilla, openoffice & XFce) all use Gtk. That was the thrust of my original argument. This is especially so, since xfce (v3 instead of v4), dillo and sylpheed are all based on gtk1.2. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years." Soviet Weekly
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