Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:49:19 -0500 From: "Don Wilde" <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> To: "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI <dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... Message-ID: <eefa2c8b0607251349w4cbaaaacq96339b43043ab485@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44C67B77.6080602@FreeBSD.org> References: <s4c641a6.030@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com> <44C67B77.6080602@FreeBSD.org>
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Right, and I think WindowMaker 0.92 is relatively Gnome-compliant. Of course, you have to realize hat when you enable such features you've just made everything dog-slow again. My EMACS lost about 40% of its (apparent) responsiveness when I built it in a gnome environment. On 7/25/06, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: > > All, > > > > Thanks for the pointers. I do want a desktop manager. > > The combination of windowmaker and rox-filer makes a nice lightweight > wm+desktop environment. Add wdm and you've you've got all the conveniences > of modern desktops without the overhead (IMO). > > hth, > > Doug > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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