I must confess to an interesting experience with it on my old machine, a 486 with 8 MB - having a neighbour's kid playing around while I was trying to do something with it, and I got distracted by something he was doing around my desk, and the next thing I knew, I had about twenty desktops all lined up two by two.
Performance went to the dogs, alright! I eventually killed the entire system and vowed a: not to play around with window managers at random; and b: not to let the neighbour's kid around my desk while I was using the computer. Wesley Parish On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:22, you wrote: > > olvwm is one of the nicest experiences I've ever had in searching for a > > decent windows manager - but at the moment I'm satisfied (reasonably) > > with kde. > > Agreed, the only "old" window manager which looks good and is > low-resource (it beats all the new low-mem and whatnot window > managers). One of the reasons I dumped Red Hat was because they dumped > openlook (of which olvwm is part), and olvwm was/is the only acceptable > window manager which runs well on a 486 (twm is puke). It took 4 hours > to compile openlook on a 486 with 32MB RAM. SuSE still ships olvwm too, > but now that I have a faster box I use KDE. > > Volker -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
