[Herefordshire] Lightweight window managers

[Noel McG.]

Hello Matt,

I went to have a look at Fluxbox [Blackbox is already on the Man CD] but I
see there is nothing specific to Mandrake on the download page.

Any idea if any of the others might work?

Noel.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: [Herefordshire] Lightweight window managers


> Hi All,
>
> Following on from the disscussion had at the last HLUG meeting about
> using a P200 with 64MB of RAM for a firewall but required an X
> installation to ease the administration.  I have come across the
> following link to a mini-review of 4 window managers that require very
> little in the way of raw speed to run:
>
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/18/1937231
>
> It looks at, AfterStep (very nice, used it myself), Enlightenment, IceWM
> and FVWM.  One that it doesn't mention is Fluxbox
> (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/) which also very lightweight.
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
>
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