On Tuesday 27 June 2006 05:01, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le mardi 27 juin 2006 à 10:42 +0200, Arnau a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to > > install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although > > it's usable, now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would > > you recommend me? > > That's a usual flame-starting question, ain't it? > > You have many choices, I liked IceWM, FVWM2 is also a good choice. > > I use Ion2 which is lightweight. It's a tabbed window manager where (by > default) all windows are fullscreen with a tab to select the window. It > can completely be controlled from the keyboard. (It also fully supports > the mouse as well as usual floating windows.)
<flame suite> The one thing that ion lacks by default is alt+tab mapping to switch between windows. Another little annoyance is the prompts for passwords etc., are also shown in full screen. For example, when I open kmail, it prompts for a passoword to kwallet, even this password prompt takes up a lot of screen. Other than these two points, ion is an excellent window manager. But they were good enough to make me go back to my old WM. </flame suite> raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about
