On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > > I have a Pentium 90 laptop with 16MB of memory running Mandrake Linux and > XFCE. I am planning on putting Debian on this laptop, and since I don't > have any permanent data stored on it I will just completely erase the hard > drive and start from scratch. With XFCE I get alot of swapping to disk > running X, so as long as I'm starting from scratch I was wondering if > anyone can recommend a really lean window manager. I realize that with 16MB > I'm going to end up using swap no matter what, but I figure the less the > better. > I would also recommend blackbox. However I think another one worth looking at is UDE (http://udeproject.sourceforge.net/), it only uses the XLib library so it is *very* fast and small.
Its very small at the moment and debian now does packages for it :) you need to do 'apt-get install ude uwm' to install it. The main thing I like about it is that there are *no* title bars with minimize icons ,etc. How do you do stuff? Well you click on the border and up pops up a small hexagonal icon thingy. Its different, I love it, *fast*, *small*, hell I couldn't ask for anything more. Alex
