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Re: efficiency of windows managers



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On 09/27/07 16:30, David Brodbeck wrote:
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> On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
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>> I understand your frustration.
>>
>> I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS X,
>> GNOME, and KDE hogged to much resources. So I started from scratch and
>> installed a base install of Debian. I then installed just the
>> necessary packages and I am using a very very lightweight window
>> manager called DWM (http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm).
> 
> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued.  It's got a pleasingly
> geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something Xerox PARC might have
> come up with in the 1970s. ;)

Heh.  To me, it looks like a very spare DESQview.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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