On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:19:57 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > I'm using XFCE4 okay. It's a bit heavy, but I can use it, with patience. > > (I need to check my X11 configuration.) > > But fvwm, the "default" window manager, is no lighter than XFCE4.
Do you mean xfwm which is based on fvwm, if so the lightness is likely similar but full XFCE is obviously heavier as it takes longer to load up, but ofc ourse it does a lot more. I've also had instances where the whole of XFCE locks up, which doesn't happen with fvwm. Also one xfce-terminal seems to be able to take out all the others which doesn't happen with xterm and you hit process limits. I still use fvwm1 rather than fvwm2 but that is mainly because I see little need. Pcmanfm has a terminal here and find built in by default that Thunar doesn't have but whilst pcmanfm is still usable it does core dump sometimes with fvwm1 whilst it doesn't seem to with fvwm2, perhaps that is because I only enable some dbus services. Whatever the reason that has to be primarily a bug in pcmanfm and not the fault of fvwm. I still haven't worked out if fvwm2 is as easy to lock down as fvwm1 either and the config migration seems to have dropped fvwm1 support now too. https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/spectrwm Is a tiling wm and hacked up by OpenBSD devs. I'd be using that but I'm not sure I could make it easy for my users to use it (not it's aim) and until I have time to find out then I like to use whatever I give my users. Of course that's chicken and egg so it's probably time I switched and found out. However simply getting a consistent dark theme across apps with differences between current and release is challenge enough.
