From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 22:30: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p1.cs.ohiou.edu (p1.cs.ohiou.edu [132.235.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B797037B405 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu) Received: from localhost (frussell@localhost) by p1.cs.ohiou.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA15346 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:29:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:29:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Russell Francis X-Sender: frussell@p1 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a fast windows manager? In-Reply-To: <20010718003708.A12385@moo.holy.cow> 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 Wed, 18 Jul 2001, parv wrote: > on Jul 18 00:15, i got this from Bsd... > > > > 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? > > > > xfce is like cde, don't know about speed & memory usage. > > fvwm1, fvwm2, blackbox, vtwm, tvtwm -- all take about the same > virtual/real memory, more or less ... These are all very minimalist window managers but I have found them to be unpleasant to work with. Window Maker is also a relatively small and fast window manager with a richer look and interface (modeled after NeXTSTEP). It is my wm/desktop of my choice over gnome/kde/enlightenment you might want to give it a try? http://www.windowmaker.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message