On Nov 26, 2012, at 16:43 54, Cowboy wrote: > 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.
I experimented heavily with fvwm a couple of years ago. Amazingly configurable, and with a dramatically lighter resource footprint to boot. Rivendell even ships with a set of icons specifically optimized for it. > 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. Pretty much all of the big 'Desktop' WMs have gone to using dbus for IPC, one of the results of which is that there is no longer much of a difference in resource utilization between Gnome and KDE. This is a problem for would-be users of fvwm, which (last I looked) doesn't support dbus at all, thus (for example) making it difficult if not impossible to support things like USB thumbdrives in a graceful way. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
