[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans-Peter Fischer) wrote in message
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> I am using a Pentium 166 MMX and, yes, there is a slight delay in
> menu response, but not seconds. About half a second perhaps.
>
> If you are so concerned about bloat you'd better not use any of the
> "desktop environments". I'm using fvwm2 and I have yet to find anything
> sensible that it can't do. I have always thought of Gnome and KDE as
> attempts to bring Windows (i. e. bloat) to Linux, and that is not what
> I want. ;-)
hi, and thanks! yes, i initially set up gnome b/c of the eye candy and
the panels, but now am finding those much less important, especially
b/c of my old system, of course.
i'll check out fvwm2, and some other managers, thanks!