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

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20060725200518.GA53427 at thought.org>, Gary Kline writes:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Don Wilde wrote:
> > On 7/25/06, Julian Stecklina <der_julian at web.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> > >>> Daniel,
> > >>>
> > >>>> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366
> > >>>> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get
> > >it
> > >>>> to run as fast and efficiently as possible.
> > >>> Drop Gnome!
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I was just thinking the same thing!
> > >>
> > >> There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more
> > >> efficient than gnome.
> > >
> > >XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop manager
> > >is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker. I
> > >also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have always found that the original FVWM, v 1.24, is the leanest and most
> > easily configurable WM out there. I've used it on anything from 486SX to
> > P-4, and it does the job. My only complaint is that the maximize buttons
> > don't quite work. However, the ease of making menus and things like that
> > make it really shine in a lot of 'lean machine' apps.
> 
> 
> 	Is FVWM Gnome and KDE complient?

Fvwm2 is ICCCM 2.0 compliant (should work under Gnome and KDE). I use it under Gnome 2.14. One day when I have the time and space I may install KDE on a machine to see how well Fvwm2 works in that environment.


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