From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 22:29:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05F437B40A for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE5F62C2; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:29:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:29:14 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Bsd Newbie Cc: Subject: Re: a fast windows manager? In-Reply-To: <20010718041050.79305.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, 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? Anything that looks like CDE is going to be slow. A more minimal window manger is likely to provide livable performance, something like twm or fvwm2. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message