Re: Best WM for slow machine?
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
| I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
| on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very sloooow and
| unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
| window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker?
IMO Enlightenment is NOT lightweight, and WindowMaker isn't very
light.
I like sawfish (formerly called "sawmill") a lot, and it is
lightweight. There are some things that sawfish won't do, such as set
the background of your display. It doesn't because that is the
desktop's job (GNOME or KDE) and not the window manager's job. This
design philosophy is one of the reasons it is quite lightweight.
-D
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