Re: Good window manager for laptop
Harry Henry Gebel <hgebel@inet.net> writes:
> I have a Pentium 90 laptop with 16MB of memory running Mandrake
> Linux and XFCE. I am planning on putting Debian on this laptop, and
> since I don't have any permanent data stored on it I will just
> completely erase the hard drive and start from scratch. With XFCE I
> get alot of swapping to disk running X, so as long as I'm starting
> from scratch I was wondering if anyone can recommend a really lean
> window manager. I realize that with 16MB I'm going to end up using
> swap no matter what, but I figure the less the better.
I use aewm, which was just recently packaged for Debian by it's author
Decklin Foster. It is very very minimalist. You can see it's home
page at http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm
I also use another "window manager" with it to give myself key
bindings, and that is "nawm" from MIT, "nawm" stands for Not A Window
Manager. It is not available as a Debian package tho.
> Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS ICQ# 76308382
> West Dover Hundred, Delaware
Wow, first Delawarean I've seen on the Debian lists. I'm from
Delaware originally, downstate, and will be moving back there shortly
(end of the month). So if you ever wanna be a developer, I can sign
your key and everything for you.
--
Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown / how the
economical cycle tends to revolve / in a round of decades
three stages stand out in a loop / a slump and war then peel
back to square one and back for more -- Stereolab "Ping Pong"
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