[Herefordshire] Lightweight window managers

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Noel,

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 08:19, Noel McG. wrote:
> Hello Matt,

I'm sure you meant Mark here... ;-)

> 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.

It's available in the contrib section of Mandrake (see below).

> Any idea if any of the others might work?

I can find:

* AfterStep in rpm AfterStep-1.8.11-5mdk.i586.rpm (can be downloaded
from
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/10.0/contrib/i586/).

* IceWM in rpms icewm-1.2.14-0.pre11.1mdk.i586.rpm and
icewm-light-1.2.14-0.pre11.1mdk.i586.rpm (should be on the mandrake CD
or can be downloaded from
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/).

* Enlightenment in rpms enlightenment-0.16.6-2mdk.i586.rpm and
enlightenment-conf-0.15-22mdk.i586.rpm (should be on the mandrake CD or
can be downloaded from
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/).

* Fluxbox in rpms  fluxbox-0.9.8-1mdk.i586.rpm and
fluxconf-0.9.7-1mdk.i586.rpm (can be downloaded from
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/10.0/contrib/i586/).

* FVWM in rpms fvwm2-2.4.17-2mdk.i586.rpm,
fvwm2-gtk-2.4.17-2mdk.i586.rpm and fvwm2-icons-2.4.17-2mdk.i586.rpm (can
be downloaded from
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/10.0/contrib/i586/).

Thanks 
Mark

> ----- 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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