Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:29:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a fast windows manager? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010718012324.15034B-100000@p1> In-Reply-To: <20010718003708.A12385@moo.holy.cow>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, parv wrote: > 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 ... These are all very minimalist window managers but I have found them to be unpleasant to work with. Window Maker is also a relatively small and fast window manager with a richer look and interface (modeled after NeXTSTEP). It is my wm/desktop of my choice over gnome/kde/enlightenment you might want to give it a try? http://www.windowmaker.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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