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First big question: what distribution are you using? Slackware? Red Hat (Fedora)? Mandrake? Debian? Not many can help without that vital information. Next: what are the specs for your laptop? CPU, RAM, hard drive size? This will also help you to make the best choice on window managers.
RedHat uses RPMs so for blackbox, here is one. For IceWM here . Some other window managers you might consider are Fluxbox and FVWM95. You might also want to look at XFce, which is a full featured Desktop Environment like GNOME and KDE but easier on resources. Here is a link to a XFce RPM.
To install RPMs, as root in a console, type:
First you'll need to add an IceWM session file. Check out this thread on how to do that. Then logout and before you log back in select IceWM from the sessions menu.
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