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Window Manager Opinions
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| W I L L 2007-02-04, 1:14 am |
| I'm using Gnome. I tried WindowMaker and WOW, it was fast, but VERY
simplistic. Is there a window manager that's sort of middle ground?
I'm looking for the fastest loading, lowest memory/processor usage
manager that also looks the best and provides decent functionality.
TIA.
w_i_l_l
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| On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:56:22 +0000, W I L L wrote:
> I'm using Gnome. I tried WindowMaker and WOW, it was fast, but VERY
> simplistic. Is there a window manager that's sort of middle ground?
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> I'm looking for the fastest loading, lowest memory/processor usage
> manager that also looks the best and provides decent functionality.
maybe xfce? -- http://www.xfce.org/
rich
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| On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:56:22 +0000, W I L L wrote:
> I'm using Gnome. I tried WindowMaker and WOW, it was fast, but VERY
> simplistic. Is there a window manager that's sort of middle ground?
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> I'm looking for the fastest loading, lowest memory/processor usage
> manager that also looks the best and provides decent functionality.
XFCE
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"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
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| On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:56:22 +0000, W I L L wrote:
> I'm using Gnome. I tried WindowMaker and WOW, it was fast, but VERY
> simplistic. Is there a window manager that's sort of middle ground?
>
> I'm looking for the fastest loading, lowest memory/processor usage
> manager that also looks the best and provides decent functionality.
>
> TIA.
>
> w_i_l_l
My tastes in 'light' desktops runs to XFCE and Enlightenment. IMHO the
best implementation of a lightweight desktop is Elive.
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| ray wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:56:22 +0000, W I L L wrote:
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> My tastes in 'light' desktops runs to XFCE and Enlightenment. IMHO the
> best implementation of a lightweight desktop is Elive.
Enlightenment is not user friendly, it's only a big farce and it's quite
hard, up to impossible to work seriously under this desktop!
If you have mucho time to waste you could probably get it to suit to your
needs, but it's a real pain... I gave e16 up and uninstalled it. XFCE is
IMHO better.
But my point of view is biased as I work with KDE, on not to old computers
with enough RAM (P3 667-800-1000, Centrino 1.5 all with 512 MB RAM).
Ciao @+
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| M. Teles 2007-02-04, 7:13 am |
| W I L L wrote:
> I'm using Gnome. I tried WindowMaker and WOW, it was fast, but VERY
> simplistic. Is there a window manager that's sort of middle ground?
>
> I'm looking for the fastest loading, lowest memory/processor usage
> manager that also looks the best and provides decent functionality.
>
> TIA.
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> w_i_l_l
If you have some sparse time you could try fvwm. you can (must?  )
configure virtualy everything and the best - it does not waste that much
cpu-cycles or memory.
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| On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:19:54 +0100, F8BOE wrote:
> ray wrote:
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> Enlightenment is not user friendly, it's only a big farce and it's quite
> hard, up to impossible to work seriously under this desktop!
> If you have mucho time to waste you could probably get it to suit to your
> needs, but it's a real pain... I gave e16 up and uninstalled it. XFCE is
> IMHO better.
I've not found it to be much more difficult or less user friendly than
anything else - it just seems to be a little different.
> But my point of view is biased as I work with KDE, on not to old computers
> with enough RAM (P3 667-800-1000, Centrino 1.5 all with 512 MB RAM).
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> Ciao @+
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| AHinMaine 2007-02-08, 1:13 pm |
| On Feb 3, 9:56 pm, W I L L <W...@nowhere.foo> wrote:
> I'm using Gnome. I tried WindowMaker and WOW, it was fast, but VERY
> simplistic. Is there a window manager that's sort of middle ground?
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> I'm looking for the fastest loading, lowest memory/processor usage
> manager that also looks the best and provides decent functionality.
>
> TIA.
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> w_i_l_l
By "decent functionality" you're probably asking for things like gui
file management tools and the ability to have them interact with your
desktop. Unfortunately that's asking a lot. Before DE's like Gnome
and KDE became stable enough to use, I was a long-time Window Maker
user and loved the tkdesk file manager. If I needed to go back to
something super-lightweight, that would be it.
In the meantime, have a look at this article. It's mostly fluff and
glosses over highly technical topics, but you may find the memory
comparisons interesting. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?
sid=07/02/05/1536225
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Andy
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