Re: Desktop manager for X Window in a slow computer?
Hi!
Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
> 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?
Ooops!
> 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.
Thanx 8-)
> 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.
I use fvwm. I'll try fvwm2.
Andreas Sliwka <goff@nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Just take a window manager with a (very)small memory
> footprint, mw2, blackbox, or icewm
Ok. Thanx.
Steve Lamb <morpheus@rpglink.com> wrote:
> I'll throw in my suggestion for icewm. It looks
> much nicer than twm, isn't too configurable, but is
> nice and small. Mind you, this is the gnome version
> and I think the normal one would be smaller.
Thank you very much :-)
C U L8R.
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