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[alberto]

Sorry i was talking about fvwm2 i never tried the older version of fvwm.

I love fvwm. Since i found it i think is the best window manager at the
moment. I used to run gnome but now is just got silly of the amount of
ram it uses.

Ms. Lene Jensen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:06, alberto wrote:
> 
>>Well in fvwm you need to be carefull of how you configure it.
>>
>>If you put all the visual stuff that fvwm has you may strugle with the 486.
>>
>>If you leave it to a minimum you should be ok.
> 
> 
> I beg to differ (assuming you mean fvwm2 as opposed to fvwm).  My all
> time favourite wm is without a doubt fvwm2.  I remember upgrading from
> fvwm, thinking "bummer," but since we were upgrading, I had to too.  I
> spent three days to set it up.  But once I had the look I wanted, ahhh,
> sit back an relax!
> 
> This was then run on a 486 or P90 as a server, and a Tandberg terminal
> with 16MB of memory as the login box.  I used to run three/four xterms,
> irc, mail client, netscape and emacs on that, and it worked just fine!
> 
> In the autumn in Norway, all the universities in the 4 major cities
> (Norway had only 4 universities until recently.  There are 6 now, I
> think) used to take their research stuff and have a display in town
> (they still do, btw).  In -96, we sat up an "internet cafe" with ONE P90
> and 10 graphical terminals and we were running fvwm95 on them.  It was
> so funny, one teenager came up, saw the screen (it looked just like
> windows95) and told his friends "Ahh, this is Windows 95, I know this!"
> So he logged in, and started poking around on the machine and was mighty
> impressed with all the games he could find!  He did ask us about that,
> and when he heard it was Linux...  Well, we converted a few teenagers
> that day!
> 
> I still prefer fvwm2 on my laptop, to my sysadmins shagrin.  It makes my
> laptop run soooo much faster on low memory.
> 
> LJ
> 
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