Re: Need help choosing WM for old machines

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

If you want a REALLY small X foot print, use no window manager.


for example set your ~/.xinitrc to
exec netscape

this will start x with netscape (now WM)


For a small window manager look into fvwm2 and qvwm (search
www.freshmeat.net for the urls)


			Harry

On Thu, 27
May 1999, Daniel Glenn wrote:

> Question from White Horse in Taiwan:
> 
> We just installed RedHat 6.0 on our old Pentium-100s and X Runs SLOW.
> GNOME with Enlightenmnet doesn't cut it in only 16 megs of RAM
> (especially considering that we have onboard VGA which means the Video
> has to share RAM with the Main system)
> 
> So the question is, Which Window Manager can we use that will allow us
> to do these things:
> Run Netscape (composer), and GIMP so that we can create Web Pages.
> 
> What simple file manager would be best? 
> 
> Thanks for you help.
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