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

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at spqr.komquats.com> writes:

> 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.
>

I would recommend wmii.  Those are really the people who know how to
work efficiently with a window manager.

>
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Xiao-Yong