[Gllug] thin desktops for X-> was Office software

[Simon Stewart]

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.

Cheers,

Simon

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