> XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are > based on GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE > faster than Gnome? Good question. I've used xfce, and have not found it any faster, or easier, on the system's resources, than gnome. The only window manager that was better in my experience was ion3 (but it did not make it into Etch; so, I'm using the Sid version). Mark