Re: Small footprint window manager
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:05:51PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 20:08, craigw wrote:
> > > On Sat May 11, 2002 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 23:37, Miroslav Mazurek wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window manager (it
> > > > > should run on 386/16MB). What's best choice?
> > > >
> > > > Choose: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/others.html
> > > >
> > > > blackbox is nice, as is icewm. Personally I always recommend to at least
> > > > try Ion http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ (on any machine, 386 or
> > > > P4). It needs some getting used to since it's a totally different
> > > > approach (and handles multi-window apps like gimp rather badly) but wow,
> > > > is it cool. Also a great choice for smaller screens (laptops)
> > > > --
> > > I highly recommend blackbox, fluxbox, & icewm.
> > >
> > > I have never tried ion, but there is another nice, unusual, and
> > > extremely lightweight & easily configurable (keybindings & such) window
> > > manager called pwm:
> > > http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
> > > For some reason, I had the feeling that pwm had evolved from ion, but
> > > when I went to retrieve that link just now, I see it calls ion
> > > "A keyboard friendly window manager based on PWM."
> >
> > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with
> > only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the
> > CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And
> > the HDD will tiny!!!
>
> I used to run X on Slackware Linux on a machine with "only" 16MB and
> a 540MB drive, which was split four ways between linux, dos, WinNT
> 3, and OS/2. I'd say it should work fine.
>
> And if it doesn't, he should go grab an old copy of Slackware and
> use that, because we *know* it will run on that hardware.
One trick to remember with a small HDD is to NOT let dselect install
everything it wants to by default. I did an installation of potato in
< 100 MB be unselecting a lot of stuff I didn't need or want on that
box (after filling up the drive the first time through). 50 MB or so
is probably a realistic minimum (it used to be somewhat less).
Bob
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