Re: Best WM for slow machine?

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* D-Man (dsh8290@rit.edu) [010610 20:05]:
>
> 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.

Before we had Gnome and KDE, what did you use to set the background,
xsetroot ??

I guess in a strict sense of "window manager", yeah, it shouldn't set
the root *background*...

Hall