on Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0700, herminio@gmail.com (herminio@gmail.com) wrote:
> Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very
> impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories
> of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was almost 10
> years ago now. I'm guessing the are other, at least equally noteworthy
> WM's around.
vtwm's still around.
You can get a general sense of various WMs at the Window Managers for X
page:
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/
> Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat
> CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs.
My own personal preference, which may have nothing to do with yours, is
WindowMaker: fast, light, configurable, unobtrusive, stable. GNOME/KDE
are generally too big and fussy for me.
For "complete" desktop environments, I've found XFCE4 to be pretty
sweet.
My _recommendation_ is that you install and try a few WMs. It's trivial
to install a WM via aptitude. And you can either run these on their own
X session or via Xnest:
Xnest :1 1024x768
<window-manager-of-choice> -display :1
...etc.
Peace.
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