I've been using Fluxbox happily for a long time now - very easy on the hardware, very little window or desktop 'clutter'. If you like icons, simply add something like idesk or acidlaunch. And it's rock solid, IMHO.
Ben Thorp Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: scotlug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers scottish-admin@mailman .lug.org.uk 29/01/03 11:06 Please respond to scottish On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Guess who got root-kitted last week. }:^> Join the gang. I think anyone worth their salt has been "done". It helps to keep the healthy paranoia going. > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out > RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Previously my box (266MHz K6 / 128Mb) was > running RH 7 with a Ximian Gnome desktop and all was stable, and > reasonably perky. Now I can only use the Gnome desktop if I log in as > root (and go make a coffee while it's starting). Even then, it falls > over after about 30 minutes of use. > > Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm > thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but > its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any > recommendations for something thats easy on the eyes and the hardware? Have you tried the Debian way? I've not yet, but a friend has switched from RH to Debian (basically because of RH8.0) and he says its great. I don't know how hardware-hungry it is, though. Cheers, Paul. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) Groups Dr Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717 A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish