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Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop...
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All,

Thanks for the pointers. I do want a desktop manager. Is there a
central site for most/all desktop managers?

Feel free to offer any more suggestions or reasons for one versus
another, and I will look into the ones already suggested.

-Dan

>>> "Don Wilde" <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> 07/25/06 3:01 PM >>>
On 7/25/06, Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de> wrote:
>
> Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes:
>
> > On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI
wrote:
> >> Daniel,
> >>
> >>> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM,
PII 366
> >>> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to
get
> it
> >>> to run as fast and efficiently as possible.
> >> Drop Gnome!
> >>
> >
> > I was just thinking the same thing!
> >
> > There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more
> > efficient than gnome.
>
> XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop
manager
> is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker.
I
> also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste.



I have always found that the original FVWM, v 1.24, is the leanest and
most
easily configurable WM out there. I've used it on anything from 486SX
to
P-4, and it does the job. My only complaint is that the maximize
buttons
don't quite work. However, the ease of making menus and things like
that
make it really shine in a lot of 'lean machine' apps.
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