Subject: Re: opinions on Window Managers please
From: Peter Steven House (aspsh4@uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 17:57:14 AKST
Anybody out there try Oroborus? I've looked at it and read some of the
documentation. It looks very flexible, and hence, a bit obscure. Thoughts?
Clay Scott wrote:
>i've tried almost every window manager available at
>one time or another. sawfish looked promising, but i
>didn't like the fact that you have to have a good
>grasp of lisp to customize it. fluxbox lasted longer
>and is a good choice, but it just didn't have the
>features i wanted at the time though i'm sure it's
>matured quite abit since then. i've always fallen
>back on tried and true enlightenment 0.16.6. it's
>small, fast (unless you're running on a pentium233
>or less) and had ridiculously easy to edit
>plain-text config files. change anything, hit
>ctrl+alt+end and your changes take effect
>immediately. people like to say it's a resource hog,
>but that all depends on how you have it set up. i've
>seen it take up as much as 7MB of memory, but that
>was on machine with a 3x3 virtual desktop all
>running at 1280x1024 with high-res backgrounds and
>an etheme with a ton of images. on this machine it
>runs a 2x2 virtual desktop at 1024x768, low file
>size desktop images and a pretty simple theme
>(minEguE) and it clocks in at a whopping 1.06MB of
>used memory. this machine is a 1.55ghz athlon with
>1gb ram so it would likely run even faster for you.
>
>they're all worth trying, but i've mentioned the
>three that i consider to be the best.
>
>just my $0.02,
>
>~clay
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Tim Jordan <timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us>
>Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:37 am
>Subject: opinions on Window Managers please
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>>Good Morning Everyone,
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>>I'm curious about trying a light weight window
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>manager for my gentoo
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>>box. I'm currently running Gnome with no major
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>complaints except that
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>>my CPU utilization is really high when running
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>vmware. I know
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>>Vmware is
>>a big application; although, I remember running
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>several VM's under
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>>my
>>Windows XP box which I cannot do under my Linux box.
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>>I've looked briefly at fluxbox and Icewm on the
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>web ( I have now
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>>emergedthem both). I need something that is not
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>going to chew up a
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>>bunch of
>>time to learn.
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>>Hmmm...I wonder if I'm taking a good approach here?
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>>Running on a P4 1.7Ghz w/1GB RAM.
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>>Thanks for your input,
>>TJ
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