On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:01:59AM -0800, Eric De Mund wrote: > ] I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. > ] The system looking for is a 486 166MHz with 64MB Ram. > ] I only want to run one or two small applications. > > One of my ThinkPads is circa 2000 system that's 266 MHz with 128 MB > RAM. I run Xfce on it with tolerable responsiveness and yet an excellent > feature set. > > I once saw a post that characterized window managers this way, when I > was searching for a lightweight one: [snip] > Medium Light: xfce, qvwm > > xfce is the smallest you can get and still have things like Gnome > compliance and easy add-on-the-fly-with-a-mouse menu options, mouse > preferences etc... Everything qvwm and below starts to sacrifice > features.
Xfce isn't really medium or light anymore since it now uses GTK 2.0 (which is far heavier than 1.x). There's also a huge difference between a box with 64 MB ram and one with 128 MB ram. The 64 MB box will hit swap doing far less. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
