On 20 Aug 2003 21:41:01 -0400 Tim Writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
Howard Gibson <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
My first strategy for speeding things up is to run FVWM2 instead of Gnome or KDE. There are a couple of other small window managers out there, but I have a long history with FVWM. There are a couple of other FVWM freaks in this user group, so you can get help.
There was some talk about running an FVWM demo at one of the user meetings. Is there any more interest in this?
Consider xfce4 instead. It's a lightweight, functional desktop, reminiscent of CDE. RAM hungry apps like OpenOffice or Mozilla will still be unwieldy (without a RAM upgrade) but you can run a decent desktop on this machine if you choose your components carefully. Debian is arguably a better choice for a low power machine as you have far more ready made packages to choose from; thus, you can better experiment with tradoffs between footprint and functionality. Be prepared, however, to spend a good bit of time customizing it to your liking.
Tim, I tried XFCE briefly a couple of years ago. It buggered up my Gnome configuration somehow. It wrote over Sawfish theme I had picked out. This probably is irrelevant now, since they keep changing Gnome. I used to use FVWM2 as my Gnome window manager, but then Gnome changed and intercepted the mouse menus, which are one of the things I like about FVWM. Wasn't somebody around here working on a distribution for older smaller computers? -- Howard Gibson hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org howard-42qnO8ePF9cV+D8aMU/kSg at public.gmane.org http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml