Hi there i am searching for Window managers in Linux.
I want the managers to require as little resources as possible. I want to give me the names of them or some link for searching more. How do i know what kinf of applications each manager supports?
Thx

When you say "window manager" you refer to the X window system, used by most distros. I suppose you are talking about desktop managers, like kde, gnome, etc, right?

Kde and gnome are the more resource-demanding managers. After that, you have window maker, which is very good and fast, and a series of boxes, like black box, flux box, open box, etc.

Applications supported can be tricky: I have kde, gnome and others installed, and my window maker can run kde apps or gnome apps. Kde can run gnome apps, and vice-versa. The bad thing is that you load their libraries and take memory, when you do that. It's a kind of superimposing tasks situation.

It amazes me how little you still know about Linux,
mate, you've been hanging out here for almost
1.5 years :}

Go to http://freshmeat.net, search for
fluxbox ratpoison icewm blackbox openbox
to name just a few very light WM's ...

As for the applications: if it's an actual app
any WM/DE will allow you to run any real
application as long as all required libraries
are installed as well.



Cheers,
Tink

fluxbox! look at some of its features. the development tree is where u want to go

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/