Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:06:24 -0400 From: "DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI" <dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... Message-ID: <s4c641a6.030@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com>
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All, Thanks for the pointers. I do want a desktop manager. Is there a central site for most/all desktop managers? Feel free to offer any more suggestions or reasons for one versus another, and I will look into the ones already suggested. -Dan >>> "Don Wilde" <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> 07/25/06 3:01 PM >>> On 7/25/06, Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de> wrote: > > Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes: > > > On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: > >> Daniel, > >> > >>> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366 > >>> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get > it > >>> to run as fast and efficiently as possible. > >> Drop Gnome! > >> > > > > I was just thinking the same thing! > > > > There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more > > efficient than gnome. > > XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop manager > is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker. I > also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste. I have always found that the original FVWM, v 1.24, is the leanest and most easily configurable WM out there. I've used it on anything from 486SX to P-4, and it does the job. My only complaint is that the maximize buttons don't quite work. However, the ease of making menus and things like that make it really shine in a lot of 'lean machine' apps. _______________________________________________ freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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