Re: [seul-edu] Best wm for tiny slow computers?

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Ralph M. Deal wrote:

> like the MSwindows they are accustomed to.  However, thes are small (16M
> RAM, ca 500M hard disk, no CDROM drives) slow (75MHz is fast in this

I believe gnumeric (and probably abiword) will be very sluggish.

> What, in your experience in similar situations, is the best compromise
> in a window manager to be reasonably fast and small but look familiar to
> students?  Right now I'm using xfce which I use myself but it would be

Also, look at fvwm
http://www.fvwm.org/
http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/Windoze95-desk-1152x864.gif

fvwm95
http://www.foxproject.org/xclass/fvwm95.html
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/screenshots/fvwm95.gif

qvwm
http://www.qvwm.org/
http://www.qvwm.org/screenshots/screen2.jpg

(I use blackbox.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/