Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop...

Don Wilde Don at Silver-Lynx.com
Tue Jul 25 20:51:01 UTC 2006


And no, FVWM is not compliant with either schema. You're definitely back in
the apps of X11, not CD blasters and Noatun.

On 7/25/06, Don Wilde <Don at silver-lynx.com> wrote:
>
> Right, and I think WindowMaker 0.92 is relatively Gnome-compliant. Of
> course, you have to realize hat when you enable such features you've just
> made everything dog-slow again. My EMACS lost about 40% of its (apparent)
> responsiveness when I built it in a gnome environment.
>
>
> On 7/25/06, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org > wrote:
> >
> > DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the pointers. I do want a desktop manager.
> >
> > The combination of windowmaker and rox-filer makes a nice lightweight
> > wm+desktop environment. Add wdm and you've you've got all the
> > conveniences
> > of modern desktops without the overhead (IMO).
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > Doug
> >
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