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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:29:14 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
To:        Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: a fast windows manager?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107180028090.86186-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010718041050.79305.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Bsd Newbie wrote:

:
: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?

Anything that looks like CDE is going to be slow.  A more minimal window
manger is likely to provide livable performance, something like twm or
fvwm2.

-- 
dscheidt@tumbolia.com
Bipedalism is only a fad.


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