On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:41:56PM +0100, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > I have a potato i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM running > X with Linux Debian 2.0. Which desktop manager for X > Window may/must I use? You mean "desktop environment", or window manager? A window manager is the thing that puts borders and titles on your windows and lets you move them around, resize them, iconify them, etc. Most (all?) also have pop-up menus that can be used to launch other applications if properly configured. A desktop environment is much more complicated thing with a really blue-sky definition. It does nifty things like let you drag and drop between different applications and more complcated stuff. KDE and GNOME are two prominent examples. You may not get satisfying performance out of either of them on an old 486. But I really can't say since I don't use either one. Assuming you mean window manager, well, there's always the old standby twm, but it's not very featureful and doesn't even support the Debian menuing system properly (yet). fvwm and fvwm2 are a couple of very popular alternatives based on twm, but are more featureful. fvwm (version 1) was designed to not hog too many system resources. I used it happily for a couple of years; I now use fvwm2. There are lots and lots of window managers out there. Your best bet is probably to experiment. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | Twice. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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