And yo was Andrew Perrin heard to yodel:
I run fvwm2 on two slower machines: a P200 with 96MB of RAM and a P90 with
16M. Works great on both!
I've been happy with Windowmaker on a Pentium 120 notebook with 32M RAM.
--
I'm not advocating that anyone take up emacs. Not even me: at my age,
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:31:47PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
. . . What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker?
As long as everyone else is jumping in, icewm
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote:
Mmh. My laptop has 20 MB of RAM. I don't think that I'll be using it
very extensively - it is rather a test to decide if I'm going to
install debian on my main computer, which by now is also starting to
get old (166 with 32 MB of RAM and 3 GB HD -
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:31:47PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
. . . What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker?
Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment?
Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment?
I run fvwm2 on two slower machines: a P200 with 96MB of RAM and a P90 with
16M. Works great on both!
--
Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina,
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:16:14PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010610 20:05]:
|
| I like sawfish (formerly called sawmill) a lot, and it is
| lightweight. There are some things that sawfish won't do, such as
| set the background of your display. It doesn't
on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker?
__
Daniel Hoffman
On Sunday 10 June 2001 04:45 pm, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully
functional!) window
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
| I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
| on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
| unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM?
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
. . . What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker?
As long as everyone else is jumping in, icewm is light and very
configurable. The only knock on it is that it
become
your next problem.
©2001
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From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Best WM for slow machine?
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166
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Subject: Re: Best WM for slow machine?
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put
Debian
on. I already tried once, and put
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Daniel Hoffman wrote:
I've got an older Pentium 166 with 16 megs of RAM that I want to put Debian
on. I already tried once, and put KDE on it, but that was very slw and
unresponsive. What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!)
window manager? FVWM?
])
Voice come from cow on wall.
If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution
may become
your next problem.
©2001
- Original Message -
From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Best WM
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010610 20:05]:
I like sawfish (formerly called sawmill) a lot, and it is
lightweight. There are some things that sawfish won't do, such as
set the background of your display. It doesn't because that is the
desktop's job (GNOME or KDE) and not the window manager's
I think afterstep has been omitted from the list. Its very configurable
and stable. Here's the top output:
12477 scorpio9 0 1636 1636 1152 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:00
afterstep
I've used it as my wm ever since I've had Linux, which started out on a
486-DX4 system with 32M ram.
Andrei
HI,
Another vote for blackbox! After using WindowMaker
almost exclusively and the transition is very easy.
It's themable. I run it on a P90 w/ 96Mb and a P150 w/
64Mb.
Another I migfht have input on (after a while) is
amiwm(I've dabbled w/ enlightenment, fvwm, and am now
going to try
On Sunday 10 June 2001 07:45 pm, Nuhn Yobiznez wrote:
Another I migfht have input on (after a while) is
amiwm(I've dabbled w/ enlightenment, fvwm, and am now
going to try amiwm {due to MY lockup problems and the
recommendation of David Nusinow that lockups in X were
attributed to
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote:
Woops... I was just planning on installing KDE on my old computer
(486, 40kHz CPU). I guess I'll try something else if there are already
problems running it on a 166...
The problem is not the 166, it is the 16 (Meg of RAM).
I'm running KDE on a
It's confirmed. Blackbox has it over amiwm. Ami
is cute (somewhat apple like) and I COULD work w/ it
but
No window shading, NO MENUS, no configuration
utility, etc.I can deal with these but if I'm
going to have a window manager, I want the bells and
whistles.
Mmh. My laptop has 20 MB of RAM. I don't think that I'll be using it
very extensively - it is rather a test to decide if I'm going to
install debian on my main computer, which by now is also starting to
get old (166 with 32 MB of RAM and 3 GB HD - still running windows
( ). Does gnome use as much
On Sunday 10 June 2001 08:23 pm, Margarete Hans wrote:
Mmh. My laptop has 20 MB of RAM. I don't think that I'll be using it
very extensively - it is rather a test to decide if I'm going to
install debian on my main computer, which by now is also starting to
get old (166 with 32 MB of RAM and 3
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