Re: opinions on Window Managers please


Subject: Re: opinions on Window Managers please
From: Mac Mason (macmasta@ak.net)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 10:32:49 AKST


Fluxbox: best WM ever, in my humble opinion. And the learning curve is
horizontal; the docs are good, and the config files are
self-explanatory.

~Mac~

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:37, Tim Jordan wrote:
> Good Morning Everyone,
>
> I'm curious about trying a light weight window manager for my gentoo
> box. I'm currently running Gnome with no major complaints except that
> my CPU utilization is really high when running vmware. I know Vmware is
> a big application; although, I remember running several VM's under my
> Windows XP box which I cannot do under my Linux box.
>
> I've looked briefly at fluxbox and Icewm on the web ( I have now emerged
> them both). I need something that is not going to chew up a bunch of
> time to learn.
>
> Hmmm...I wonder if I'm taking a good approach here?
>
> Running on a P4 1.7Ghz w/1GB RAM.
>
> Thanks for your input,
> TJ
>
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