Best Window Manager for an old Dell XPi 133 ST laptop...

needamiracle · 11-10-2002, 12:47 PM

Looking for a light weight window manager for my new old laptop...Anyone have any suggestions? I have checked out Sourceforge, how is IceWM?

Ryan

GT I.N.C · 11-10-2002, 11:35 PM

Fluxbox will run brilliantly...Ice should be ok too, anything like that, blackbox too...

#Garry

born4linux · 11-11-2002, 02:22 AM

twm?

mace · 11-11-2002, 04:59 PM

although i'm a flux fan i think blackbox would be lighter on your system. had it running on a 90mhz with 32megs ram fine.

NSKL · 11-12-2002, 09:52 AM

How about twm, fvwm2 or some such?
-NSKL

jglen490 · 11-12-2002, 01:20 PM

I have a P120 IBM laptop. IceWM runs very nicely on it. Actually, in some of my more calm moments, I find that KDE 3.0.1 is also very good

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I would recommend IceWM, maybe even Xfce, but there are always the lightweights including the *box "cousins". You might want to look at http://www.xwinman.org/index.html as a resource for window managers, GUIs, and desktops.

Thymox · 11-12-2002, 01:23 PM

SawFish, with out a doubt!

MasterC · 11-12-2002, 02:03 PM

twm is fine, I think it's plenty wm for anyone looking for a diet for their box. It's very useful, and doesn't very much smaller than that.

And since it's the 3rd time it's been mentioned, might be worth a shot

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needamiracle · 11-13-2002, 01:27 PM

I installed Fluxbox and it works almost flawlessly. When I exit Flux, I get a screen full of errors. But everything seems to work when using Flux...now if I can just get my sound to work...

MasterC · 11-13-2002, 02:45 PM

Sweet, good luck on the sound

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