[TriLUG] Newbie question...Desktops

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 08:48, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> My main reason is I'm trying to speed up boot time on my box. Since it's
> such a SLOW box, I'd like to try this suggested "upgrade" by a guy we all
> know.

Changing your WM won't change your boot speed, just the time it takes to
log on to X. Blackbox is *SO* lightweight that it takes next to no
startup time when I log in. Everything else, though...*grin*

> FYI...Blackbox says it will support KDE, but not Gnome. 

KDE 1 only, and not KDE2 (which is what everyone ships with now). 

What I do in my .Xclients-default to get the gnome panel with blackbox
is this :

# start gnome panel only
panel &
# start blackbox
blackbox

> Any suggestions for desktops that aren't bulky like KDE and Gnome that will
> run on a P100MHz with 40MB RAM?

Blackbox, 9wm, and oroborus (which you'll ahve to get the sources for
and compile) are my picks for really lightweight. oroborus & 9wm are for
really advanced users, IMHO, as they don't even have half the built-in
features of blackbox (i.e. the menu in 9wm is pretty much xterm, kill,
move, and exit. Oroborus doesn't *HAVE* a menu, but if you want one, the
program "deskmenu" does a fine job).

HTH...

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