From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 18:53:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A197F37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CDC43E3B for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:53:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gAC2sgAQ047478; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:54:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 172.16.1.33 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by samaria.polands.org with HTTP; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:53:32 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3131.172.16.1.33.1037069612.squirrel@samaria.polands.org> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:53:32 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Window/File Manager From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <20021111174951.B20887@sylvester.dsj.net> References: <1036430278.61de1060jud@myrealbox.com> <20021111174951.B20887@sylvester.dsj.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 David S. Jackson said: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ryan Sommers >> 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). >> >> 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 use windowmaker. Quite light and fast. A linux aquaintence of mine recently suggested waimea. It's even lighter and faster than windowmaker and shares a heritage from NextSTEP. I've only played with it for a few minutes, you might want to check it out. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message