On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 20:08, craigw wrote: > > On Sat May 11, 2002 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 23:37, Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > > > > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window manager > > > > (it > > > > should run on 386/16MB). What's best choice? > > > > > > Choose: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/others.html > > > > > > blackbox is nice, as is icewm. Personally I always recommend to at least > > > try Ion http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ (on any machine, 386 or > > > P4). It needs some getting used to since it's a totally different > > > approach (and handles multi-window apps like gimp rather badly) but wow, > > > is it cool. Also a great choice for smaller screens (laptops) > > > -- > > I highly recommend blackbox, fluxbox, & icewm. > > > > I have never tried ion, but there is another nice, unusual, and > > extremely lightweight & easily configurable (keybindings & such) window > > manager called pwm: > > http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/ > > For some reason, I had the feeling that pwm had evolved from ion, but > > when I went to retrieve that link just now, I see it calls ion > > "A keyboard friendly window manager based on PWM." > > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with > only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the > CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And > the HDD will tiny!!!
I used to run X on Slackware Linux on a machine with "only" 16MB and a 540MB drive, which was split four ways between linux, dos, WinNT 3, and OS/2. I'd say it should work fine. And if it doesn't, he should go grab an old copy of Slackware and use that, because we *know* it will run on that hardware. -jwb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
