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redhat or mandrake?
Master of Reality:
well.. i happen to have mandrake 8.1 on CD.
so that is what i shall try
:cool:
Leodak:
you might wanna try blackbox as a window manager, it's simple and clean, http://blackbox.alug.org/ but it takes a little getting used to
voidmain:
Blackbox looks like just the ticket to speed up my Laptop... Have you used it? KDE is pretty clunky for my slow laptop but it's bearable. Of course it's no slower than Winblows.
lost:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Blackbox looks like just the ticket to speed up my Laptop... Have you used it? KDE is pretty clunky for my slow laptop but it's bearable. Of course it's no slower than Winblows.
--- End quote ---
Good minimalistic windowmanager would of course be Windows Maker. Highly customizable and very small footprint. Blackbox is right up there with small, minimalistic and useable. Could always go twm if you really want to punish yourself though.
;)
voidmain:
I am very familiar with Windowmaker and twm already (8 years ago twm was about the only Window manager that would run on Linux, at least until fvwm came out). I despise twm and Windowmaker is ok but I prefer kwm, the screen shots on Blackbox looked pretty cool. Just wondering if it was as mature as Windowmaker? It claims to be able to run KDE apps. Does it have any problems doing so?
Actually, I just installed WindowMaker on my laptop and it *is* the ticket. Now my laptop seems as snappy as my AMD 1600 (well not quite). (-; It runs KDE and GNOME apps just fine (Konqueror and Evolution being my favorite). kwm is way too clunky and slow on my laptop for some reason. Thanks for reminding me about WindowMaker! In fact after using it again I realize that I don't use most of the "features" of KDE/kwm. I might just switch my other machines over to WindowMaker, why waste all those CPU cycles unnecessarily?
The main reason I got on the KDE/kwm kick was so I could show Windows users that Linux can be very much like Windows. But why be like Windows and be bloated when you don't have to be?
[ January 31, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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