Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/10, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There are a lot of window managers available (too many to download and test them all over a slow dial up link) and I'm looking for suggestions. Here's what I want: low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. Most of the time, x apps

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 5/10/07, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. > Rock solid stable. A focus on good design and being bug-free over > adding 'features'. This is pretty much a matter of taste. For light WMs, the ones I've tried and heard of are: fluxbox ice

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. > Rock solid stable. A focus on good design and being bug-free over > adding 'features'. I recommend ctwm. But you'll have to go through editing a config file. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread Martin Marcher
ion3 (ion2 is) not in debian but just depends on lua-5.1 hth martin On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:11:25PM -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On May 10, 12:10 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a lot of window

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:11:25PM -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On May 10, 12:10 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a lot of window managers available (too many to download and > > test them all over a slow dial up link) and I'm looking for suggestions. > > Fluxb

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:45:16PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > There are a lot of window managers available (too many to download and > test them all over a slow dial up link) and I'm looking for suggestions. > > Here's what I want: > > > low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. >

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 10, 12:10 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot of window managers available (too many to download and > test them all over a slow dial up link) and I'm looking for suggestions. > Fluxbox? http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ Certainly fills the rock solid bill.

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:45:16PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I used to use icewm but the configuration and menu-editing apps don't > seem to be in etch. My .icewm/preferences has 10 lines excluding comments. I never edit the menu because my main apps are in .icewm/toolbar which has a

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-10 Thread didier gaumet
On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:45:16 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hi Doug, I have had roughly the same requirements for a lightweight wm on an old laptop (Pentium 133 and 32MB ram, NetBSD 3.0). After having tried fluxbox, blackbox, icewm and many others, I found that WindowMaker was not slower but