[Gllug] thin desktops for X ... flwm

[Kim Hawtin]

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:32:23AM -0000, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> > Seeing fvm2 mentioned makes me ask what is the best (read
> > fastest/functional) window manager for X when running a low resource
> > machine?  I going to be setting up a P133/144MB laptop to take home with
> > me, I think gnome will be too slow and I don't really need all the
> > extras that come with it.  Have played with sawfish (was sawmill) and
> > really like it's minimal screen and multiple work spaces.
> > 
> > Anyone care to share comparisons/experiences with other window managers?
> 
> Windowmaker is good clean fun, and better than Afterstep, IMHO. If you
> want something really light, then try wmx --- extremely funky, and the
> WM that I used to use for my quake login :) Ran like a dream on my old
> P200MMX w/ 64MB of RAM, so you should be fine.

When i only had my old dell P75/16M ram, i started using FLWM, based on
FLTK, fast light tool kit... cause it was small and had a keyboard accessable
menu and alt-tab change between windows...

Below you can see what its using on my current laptop, running in -bpp 16 mode.
note; the x server generally uses more cpu than any other x process =/

 12:22pm  up 42 days, 12:52,  4 users,  load average: 0.26, 0.10, 0.06
71 processes: 67 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 45.5% user,  1.5% system,  0.0% nice, 52.8% idle
Mem:  257340K av, 253296K used,   4044K free,  58372K shrd, 153516K buff
Swap:      0K av,      0K used,      0K free                 36040K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 2369 root      10   0 13920 9760  2120 S       0 41.5  3.7   5:02 XF86_SVGA
...
 2360 kim        0   0   828  824   664 S       0  0.0  0.3   0:00 startx
 2368 kim        0   0   760  760   624 S       0  0.0  0.2   0:00 xinit
 2373 kim        0   0  1664 1664  1284 S       0  0.0  0.6   0:00 
x-window-manager

there are also a heap of little monitoring apps, eps for wireless stuff
being written in FLTK <http://www.fltk.org/> =) and has a glade like tool
called fluid.

yours,

kim

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