On 26 November 2012 21:43, Cowboy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2012 04:21:29 pm Rivendell Steve wrote: > > > The studio playout PC is running debian wheezy. Can anyone recommend a > > suitable windows manager? If it makes any difference I'm running with two > > touch screen displays. > > > > This is only for playout, there's a seperate PC for email, etc. > > What does Debian provide these days as "standard" ? > > It was Debian that introduced me to both TWM and FVWM. > These days, Slackware, but still FVWM. > Light weight, and extensible. ( twm is a tad too lightweight, but > quite serviceable ) > FVWM can be as minimal as you like, or considerably more. > Far FAR less resource intense than KDE. I've not played with Gnome. > Most of the others fall somewhere between FVWM and KDE. > Because of the way KDE apps communicate, KDE is somewhat more > resource intense than Microsoft Windows, or so it appears. >
Thanks guys, both FVWM and fluxbox are available on debian ;) My currrent WM installed on debian wheezy is metacity under gnome. Steve.
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