Hello,

I am wondering if anyone knows how well various window managers use resources?

What are CPU usage, Memory usage, Hard Disk usage, how fast they respond and run, etc., etc, - for window managers/desktop environments such as:

TWM
FVWM
Blackbox
Fluxbox
WindowMaker
Xfce
Gnome
KDE

Well I've only used KDE, Gnome, and Fluxbox.

KDE has a ton of features but is rather bloated. KDE's goal is for everything to "just work", and they execute that pretty well. To run KDE well you'll need a lot of RAM.

Gnome is also full-featured though a little more lean than KDE. You'll still need a sizable amount of RAM to run Gnome.

My personal favorite is Fluxbox, which is lean, very fast, and doesn't eat a lot of RAM. It's also highly configurable, though you'll need to edit some text files.

That's my 2 cents worth Good luck picking the best one for what you want.