Let me get this straight, you want to use a WM that is less resource hungry, but want an alternative to nautilus. You know you can install nautilus and run it on any window manager right? Are you that tight for harddisk space, and memory that you need something simple.
In most cases unless your running a 486, or have something like a 5 gig harddrive your not going to see a big speed increase for going to smaller WM. Yes you will have more space, and use less memory, but I would proably say your memory usage is not going to be drastically reduced. The only reason really is disk space, but nowadays it's almost a non issue. Now going to say a console and not running Xorg, or Xfree that might be worth it, if your memory is that low. I have to agree with what has already been posted, most of the Gui's just call cdrecord, or mkisofs, or growisofs so knowing how to use those programs is almost a requirement. I know the man pages for those programs can be hard to digest, but most come with samples, and a quick google search will give you the needed examples. Also chances are that they will have more options than their gui cousins. But switching to another WM and not thinking you can use you burning app because it's gnome or kde is doing yourself a disfavor. Use the programs you like be it KDE, or Gnome you might use more diskspace but that is what hard drives are for. For example I have a laptop which runs Etch, WM is fluxbox running Rox-filer. It only has a 10 gig drive, I have most of Gnome, and KDE installed. Because I like Konqueror as a Man page viewer, and I like a few Gnome applications. Doing a quick du -h shows that I have over 4 gig's left on home, and I am only using about 2 gig total if you count my home and all other partitions. This baby only has 256 MB and I must say Xorg probably takes up more then it's fair share of memory. It runs great with etch, now if it only had say 128 MB or less then I might be in some hurt. You might want to do a google search, and see if you can find some benchmarks, or memory usage stats for the WM's you are going to use. This might give you an idea of the benefit you will recieve by switching WM's, I must say that in most cases you will not see a drastic increase. Unless you compare load times of Xorg with say KDE or Gnome, to say Fluxbox, or one of OpenBox. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
