Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:35:56 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... Message-ID: <200607252335.k6PNZumq023842@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> of "Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:05:18 PDT." <20060725200518.GA53427@thought.org>
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In message <20060725200518.GA53427@thought.org>, Gary Kline writes: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > > 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. > > > Is FVWM Gnome and KDE complient? Fvwm2 is ICCCM 2.0 compliant (should work under Gnome and KDE). I use it under Gnome 2.14. One day when I have the time and space I may install KDE on a machine to see how well Fvwm2 works in that environment. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Web: http://www.komquats.com and http://www.bcbodybuilder.com FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org BC Government: <Cy.Schubert@gov.bc.ca> "Lift long enough and I believe arrogance is replaced by humility and fear by courage and selfishness by generosity and rudeness by compassion and caring." -- Dave Draper
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