From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 21:20: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hp06.postech.ac.kr (smtp.postech.ac.kr [141.223.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A50437B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from users.sourceforge.net (surfion4.postech.ac.kr [141.223.126.84]) by hp06.postech.ac.kr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26235; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:20:41 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3B550EB6.69F8DDC@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:21:10 +0900 From: "R. Lahaye" Organization: Postech X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a fast windows manager? References: <20010718041050.79305.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Newbie wrote: > > I have an inexpensive bookpc that uses the SiS630 > chipset. It's pulling 16mb from the system ram... > > The problem with this chipset is it's incredibly slow. > > I've tried KDE and Gnome which crawl along. Is there > a windows manager that looks more like CDE and is much > faster than these two? Even on my fast Pentium III with lots of Mem, I find KDE and Gnome a waist of resources. Have a look at xfce at www.xfce.org. It's available as port and package for FreeBSD. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message