[GRLUG] Desktop managers

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Lee Forest <lee8oi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess this is a bit off topic. I have an older computer, along with
> it theres some rather odd performance issues with it. I'm running
> ubuntu 8.10 and I know it comes with gdm, and uses gnome. But it seems
> rather laggy. I've tried xfce to find an improvement in performance
> only to be dissapointed with a few things feature wise. then ended up
> running fluxbox. which of course definitly lacks a few things, but
> also seems very simple, appealing, not to mention faster. But I
> wouldn't mind finding a good combination of desktop manager/window
> manager that would maximize my performance on this system. Anyone got
> any good ideas? I have an intel celeron 700mhz, with 310 pc133 sdram
> ram. doesn't even feel like a 700 mhz the way its running. a bit
> better with flux box, but still some performance issues.

I've found wmii to be quite agreeable, once I learned the keyboard
shortcuts.  I was able to comfortably use a 500MHz laptop for last
year and part of this year.  I know there are some ratpoison fans on
this list as well.


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