From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 17:19:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95B2E37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 18050 invoked by uid 100); 19 Jul 2001 00:19:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15190.10112.605392.523694@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:19:12 -0500 To: David Leimbach Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a fast windows manager? In-Reply-To: <48082754@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:10:50PM -0700, 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? I've fixed the top-posting. Please don't do that here. David Leimbach types: > Try WindowMaker or BlackBox. Lite and fast! :) > > WindowMaker is involved in the GNUStep collection which seems to be of growing > popularity as it has libraries that can be coded in objective C. This is > also similar to the NextStep stuff that works on Mac OSX! > > BlackBox is just plain fast :). But if you are one of those people who hate > C++ and everything that comes out of it don't use it... BlackBox is 100% C++ > code. I haven't added my favorite - lwm - because it isn't much like CDE. If you're interested in working on a window manager and don't want C++, you might give it a look. It's a minimalist window manager - one button in the window decorations and one menu are all the controls it provides - but the code is 100% C, and all very clean. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message