I'm not an expert at all, but I'm enjoying window maker a lot. It's got a lot of nice features, like multiple desktops and high configurability, without fill your memory. I think it's a good compromisea and If you are used to KDE, you'll be surprised by the short time it takes to start...
alb On Sep 25 at 01:36AM-0700, Joshua Banks wrote: > I just finished installing Gentoo on an older machine. I've just finished doing > "system -u update" > and so I've basically have a system ready to go to the next stage of getting a > window manager > installed. > > This is where my Newbness comes in. Since merging over to linux from windows which > did everything > for me.. Heh..heh.. I tried Mandrake and found that Mandrake was a painless install. > It basically > did everything for me as well, just allot more to choose from versus M$ and its free. > > My goal is to try out a lightweight "window manager" but all that I've been used to > is installing > is KDE or GNOME. > KDE is a fatty and although I like it allot it seems to need a ton of memory and is > all around > resource hog. Plus I only use it for the following: > > Web Browser > Text Editor > Konsole or Console shell > Listening to music and occassionally watching mpegs or avi's. > I use Gaim for Instant Messenging, Ethereal for sniffing traffic for > troubleshooting, and use > Shorewall firewall for its ability of Natting or Masq'ing so that more than one > person can share > the Internet Connection. > > Where my confusion comes in is the terms used. I just assumed that KDE was my linux > face so to > say. But then I see terms like: > Window Manager...kind-of understand this..The thing thats incharge of drawing the > windows.. > Session Manager...Not sure what this does or the huge difference between different > versions are. > Theme Manager....kind-of understand this..This lets you Jazz-up your windows > environment I think.. > > And this is where I get confused. Is there a simple not (totally ugly) window > manager that I can > use on my old machine and still be able to use the simple things that I use above? > > By the way...I just wanted to thank everyone for taking the time that responded to > my previous > posts. You've helped a ton. > > I'm on my 3rd pc with Gentoo Rocking and Rolling. Now I just need to get simple > linux/unix > networking/file/print/sharing down and I will be able replace everything at my moms > home business > saving here probably around 10 thousand $US.. > > Thanks, > Joshua Banks > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
