[Gllug] retro computing

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On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Matthew King moaned:
> FVWM is still pretty fast, y'know...

Indeed it is. You can even combine both worlds and run a KDE/GNOME
desktop with fvwm on fast machines and a pure-fvwm one on slow
ones (that's what I do).

> And there's always the option of running your X clients on a remote
> machine with decent CPU/RAM. Then your X server has to do very little
> even for a snazzy-looking desktop. This *is* what it was designed for,
> after all.

You can run the window manager on there too.

(And the next step up from *that* is XDMCP.)

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