Small Window Managers : for those who do not run NASA machines

I did not forget, I just want to leave the chance for a few others to participate.

AfterStep

I guess I'm a sort of extremist here - either full KDE or no X at all

I used to use Gnome + Enlightenment some years ago but changed to KDE (for personal reasons )

Well either KDE or Gnome were way too slow on my K6-2 450mhz. It wasn't a ram problem since that machine has 384mb & more then half of it was empty. I installed WindowMaker & IceWM & they're blazing fast on that machine.

Most of the time it's in Runlevel 3 anyways, since it's only crunching seti but I sometimes use it for something & Gnome/KDE are so unresponsive on it, I sometimes just go back Runlevel to do the commands.:dead:

I'm gonna play around with the other available WMs & see which I decide to keep.

Kahakai

BlackBoxWM



*Edit* BlackBox is no longer maintained. Some of the BlackBox programmers are now working on either FluxBox or Kahakai.

XFCE

Here's a review of some of the aforementioned WMs:

NewsForge | Four alternative Linux window managers