Re: Good window manager for laptop
Hello there,
I could also recommend the ones others have recommended:
* blackbox: nice, lightweight
* uwm (from ude): used it for some time, this one is really lightweight,
smallest memory footprint of the windowmanagers I already used (blackbox,
fvwm, windowmaker, sawfish, icewm, uwm), and still pretty nice to use.
But at the moment I am using windowmaker on my laptop (486@75 MHz with 8
Mb RAM), just because I found out, that it is relatively fast, considered
the amount of functionality I gives you. (And I really like the NeXtish
look! ;-).
Regards,
Daniel
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS ICQ# 76308382
> West Dover Hundred, Delaware
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