IMHO Enlightenment requires some pretty serious hardware. The Enlightenment FIle Manager (still a prerelease) recommends: PII-300 96Mb RAM 8Mb 2x AGP video card XFree86 3.9.18 or Accelerated X (an Xserver that caches pixmaps in off-screen video memory) I like ICEWM , its fast and stable and small. http://www.icewm.org/index.php/