In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? >> I'm just looking for >> something that does the job, looking nice would be >> an added benefit but >> I doubt I'll have a high color depth to play with >> anyway. > > You can't go wrong with Blackbox (or fluxbox, which is > very similar). It can look as detailed or as simple as > you want. I use it on my low spec laptop and > workstations. If you want a nice looking theme, I > suggest 'AlmostX', but you might want to get rid of > some of the gradients in it, as rendering them chew > unnecessary CPU power. It's been quite usable on my > p120 thinkpad.
With a fairly "rich" configuration, how small is fluxbox's footprint? I just had a peek at fluxbox's source, and I see that gradient shading is done with X pixmaps. If they're cached (by color and/or size?), this is rather memory hungry, no? I run vtwm with a rather "rich" setup on FreeBSD 4.5-REL-p22, XF86 4.2.0, TrueColor visual, and top shows the following: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 49880 hawkeyd 2 0 3092K 2496K select 0:16 0.00% 0.00% vtwm It does cache pixmaps by size and color, but for the most part they're small - titlebar buttons. I use sound effects, too, which are cached by the rplay daemon: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 174 root 2 0 2000K 1460K select 4:15 0.00% 0.00% rplayd So, vtwm's total footprint is about 5.1Mb, about 3.9Mb being resident. How does that fair against fluxbox or blackbox? As X pixmaps are server-cached, how can one [easily] tell how much memory is used for them? > As far as file managers go, I would suggest perhaps > XFtree from XFce. I've not used every file manager, > but I have used this in the past, its been good and > has a small footprint. You can assign file > associations too. > > I've used these both in the past, in a sort of hybrid > blackbox-xfce manner, and it served me well. Midnight Commander in an xterm. :-) Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message