window manager

porous · 10-15-2003, 05:53 AM

hi all

in our lab we have pentium 3 machines with 128 ram..
but the vendors cheated the lab in charge ,
the motherboard is really a crap...
in some machines we have rh9 installed
i use window manager kde ,but its very slow ...
can some one tell me which window manager willl
give me a better perfomance ..
my consideration is mainly that it has to be light....

thx .....

nukkel · 10-15-2003, 06:11 AM

Blabkbox, Windowmaker, Fluxbox are all light-weight but you'll need to learn how to work woth them, they're quite different from kde or gnome

porous · 10-15-2003, 06:17 AM

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but you'll need to learn how to work woth them, they're quite different from kde or gnome

will the programs that come bundlled with kde also work in these
or do i have to find other application for these window managers

nukkel · 10-15-2003, 07:49 AM

They should work fine - however you don't have things like a taskbar etc...
I use windowmaker and I run both qt- (kde-style) and gtk-programs (gnome style)

Grtz
nukkel

UltimaGuy · 10-15-2003, 10:30 AM

Try xfce at www.xfce.org. It is really beautiful and is user friendly.

Wynd · 10-15-2003, 01:30 PM

Or IceWM. It's reasonably light and it has a taskbar if you want it.

porous · 10-16-2003, 07:54 AM

thx guys for your help ...:-)
i downloaded xfce hope it will work ....

:-)