Hi! Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:41:56PM +0100, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > > I have a potato i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM running > > X with Linux Debian 2.0. Which desktop manager for X > > Window may/must I use? > > You mean "desktop environment", or window manager? Ooops! > A window manager is the thing that puts borders and > titles on your windows and lets you move them > around, resize them, iconify them, etc. Most (all?) > also have pop-up menus that can be used to launch > other applications if properly configured. > > A desktop environment is much more complicated thing > with a really blue-sky definition. It does nifty > things like let you drag and drop between different > applications and more complcated stuff. KDE and > GNOME are two prominent examples. You may not get > satisfying performance out of either of them on an > old 486. But I really can't say since I don't use > either one. Thanx 8-) > fvwm and fvwm2 are a couple of very popular > alternatives based on twm, but are more featureful. > fvwm (version 1) was designed to not hog too many > system resources. I used it happily for a couple of > years; I now use fvwm2. I use fvwm. I'll try fvwm2. Andreas Sliwka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just take a window manager with a (very)small memory > footprint, mw2, blackbox, or icewm Ok. Thanx. Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll throw in my suggestion for icewm. It looks > much nicer than twm, isn't too configurable, but is > nice and small. Mind you, this is the gnome version > and I think the normal one would be smaller. Thank you very much :-) C U L8R. -- ___ Daniel González Gasull __|_|__ "Un sólo muerto es mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o) ya demasiado." PGP RSA key 1024/EEA93A69 ( - ) -- Nelson Mandela ( . ) ( . ) (_________) > Hi! I'm Signature Virus 99! Copy me into your signature and join the fun!