Re: window manager recomendation

[Tom <tb.31112.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:41:44AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:32:38PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:
> > Some other small window managers are aewm, aewm++ and flwm.  (What is 
> > Installed-Size anyway?)
> 
> It is a field for the debian package, representing disk space used when
> the package is unpacked. It provides a rough idea of how much memory the
> program will use, too - although it isn't a good idea to rely on it for
> anything important. (it isn't accurate at all)

Does binary size really indicate how much memory will be used?
It's easy for a tiny program to allocate gobs of memory.