Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:56:24 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI <dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... Message-ID: <44C68578.3070307@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <s4c641a6.030@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com> References: <s4c641a6.030@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com>
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On 07/25/2006 15:06, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: > All, > > Thanks for the pointers. I do want a desktop manager. Is there a > central site for most/all desktop managers? Check out: http://www.xwinman.org/ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric
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