Re: windowmaker
Andy Streich wrote:
Hi,
Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to
windowmaker:
I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus
prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too
bulky for my PIII-650 / 320MB workstation
I'm even resource-poorer with a PII-400/128MB workstation. I tried KDE,
switched to GNOME, and now am investigating windowmaker. Can anyone give me
pointers to information about what to expect? Specifically,
1. resources to learn/understand windowmaker
Dunno, never read anything, just use it.
2. email client that works well (and lightly) in that environment (love KMail,
but the overhead is too much on my system)
Thunderbird? There isn't really any kind of WindowMaker specific email
client, so anything will do. mutt? pine?
3. package manager, I've been using Synaptic. Am I right in assuming that
aptitude is the way to go in a windowmaker environment or am I reduced to the
command line?
aptitude works very nicely in windowmaker. It's my default.
4. am I just too optimistic that my old system is adequate to run some kind of
GUI on linux?
Probably not. Windowmaker takes 4MB compared to how many hundreds for
KDE? emacs (x-window mode) takes up more RAM.
5. where do I learn about how to change from booting into a GNOME dm to login
to a windowmaker dm?
Change the default?
FYI I'm a dinosaur that learned programming in FORTRAN with punch cards in the
'70s. Even in the '80s 128MB of RAM was a supercomputer and people (from HP
if I recall correctly) were writing papers claiming that 50Mhz CPUs were
impossible.
I love punch cards. Did you ever use the paper tape?
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