Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:37:08 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a fast windows manager? Message-ID: <20010718003708.A12385@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010718041050.79305.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:10:50PM -0700 References: <20010718041050.79305.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>
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on Jul 18 00:15, i got this from Bsd... > > I have an inexpensive bookpc that uses the SiS630 > chipset. It's pulling 16mb from the system ram... > > The problem with this chipset is it's incredibly slow. > > I've tried KDE and Gnome which crawl along. Is there > a windows manager that looks more like CDE and is much > faster than these two? > xfce is like cde, don't know about speed & memory usage. fvwm1, fvwm2, blackbox, vtwm, tvtwm -- all take about the same virtual/real memory, more or less ... fvwm2 would be ok for small RAM, as long as you don't run any modules. so, will blackbox, as long as you don't run bbkeys (for key binding) and bbpager (for _visual_ virtual desktop/pager) vtwm has crashed on me (freebsd >3.5-stable + XFree86 >3.3.6) while using key bindings or moving windows semi-randomly. tvtwm... ah, doesn't crash like vtwm... only problem is it's harder to resize/move windows via keyboard, unlike fvwm2, but that's a personal preference. if you have 3 mouse button, you should at least try wmx ... i gave up for creating root menu was unusually cumbersome... here are some comparisons & things... my comparison, nov 2000 http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/conf.x/compare-wm a list of wms http://www.xwinman.org/ another comparison: http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/wm/ -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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