Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:41:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ryans@gamersimpact.com Subject: Re: Window/File Manager Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0211041233380.2316-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <1036430278.61de1060jud@myrealbox.com>
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Ryan - On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jud wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: 03 Nov 2002 21:55:37 -0600 > Subject: Window/File Manager > > I recently decided to bring my old Presario 1220 our of retirement and > make a small toy laptop to play around with. Unfortunately it's only a > 200mhz/64mb RAM system with a 2.1gb harddrive. I would like to use X if > possible but given the hardware limitations I really can't have a > bloated featureful WM or FM and still have a usable laptop (after all if > the GUI is slow I might as well install 98SE). I have an anaemic Cyrix/166 box which started with only 16 MBy. FreeBSD's default WM just thrashed - half a minute to see results of any action! > What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? I'm just looking for > something that does the job, looking nice would be an added benefit but > I doubt I'll have a high color depth to play with anyway. I configured 'fvwm2', which is lively and fine, even on that sad box. Supposed to have some degree of KDE compatibility now, but I didn't test that. Configuration is old-style by hand [i.e., text files], but I still remembered a few basics of that. &6-) Sorry - no advice on file managers. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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