Hi. I've been running gnome for a while now but I've found that it takes up a lot of memory, so either I would like to speed up gnome by using less graphics or find a faster, less graphical, window manager. Does anyone know any guides on how to achieve this, or where to find a faster window manager?

Niklas

Xfce:- Nice and fast, GUI interface
IceWM:- Extremly fast,

Thanks for the tips. Would it be possible to make gnome less graphical in some way (like tweaking it somehow) so it would be faster?

blackbox or fluxbox, even faster

Not faster than ice. Less featureful, but ice is fast. XFCE, though, is definitely slow compared to all three of them. But, then, it's a de.

As far as Gnome, it doesn't have a lot of options but it seems like there was specifically a 'reduce memory' option and then, of course, wherever you've got an option to disable an animation or a graphic (such as toolbars) and to pick a simple background or plain color and to kill any processes you don't particularly need, it'd help. However, Gnome's default configuration tries to hide Gnome's slowness as much as possible so making it much faster than it is to begin with would probably take some doing.

Okay, thanks for your help. I'll test and see what works best for me.

One more thing: Does screen resolution have anything to do with the memory usage and speed to do? Would a lower screen resolution be faster than a higher?

I believe it does and would, but don't hold me to that, as I'm not positive. For instance, it may rest mainly on your video card and the card may handle the increased resolution fine and you may be having slow application starts that would be a different matter where reducing resolution wouldn't have any effect. Maybe that's not accurate but my point is it may be a more complex issue. Basically, I think it's true, though, for screen draws and movements and whatnot. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the details can add to/correct this.