light WM

[tecknophreak]

anyone want to recommend a light wm? i'm going to install slackware with a small system without much memory and i'm looking for a small, but nice looking wm.

[Ludootje]

icewm: fast, nicelooking, stable as a rock, small (630017), very customizable, you have icewm & icewm-light, so you can have a really lightweight version too if you want
url: icewm.org (http://www.icewm.org)

screenie (http://www.ludootje.f2s.com/screenshots/screenshot18-12-2001.png)

:cool:IceWM :cool:

[ 24 January 2002: Message edited by: Ludootje ]

[TacKat]

IceWM (http://www.icewm.org/), Blackbox (http://blackbox.alug.org/), Fluxbox (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/), WindowMaker (http://www.windowmaker.org).

[thor420]

This could spark a highly hot debate round these parts. I like Blackbox. Light, easy to navigate, customize; looks stylie, is sleek.

Heres my look (http://www.thorhost.com/screenies.html)

[Jomboni]

http://www.red-bean.com/%7Edecklin/aewm/

It's only 34k.

[TacKat]

Originally posted by Jomboni:
<STRONG>http://www.red-bean.com/%7Edecklin/aewm/

It's only 34k.</STRONG>

I think I'm going to have to check that out.

I may have just found a new WM. :)

[tecknophreak]

34k??? what?? that's insane, i think we have a winner. as for fluxbox, i saw enough in the post your screen thread, it's getting installed this weekend
:)

[mstich]

Sure aewm is small, but it provides no functionality.

[Joeri Sebrechts]

Originally posted by tecknophreak:
<STRONG>anyone want to recommend a light wm? i'm going to install slackware with a small system without much memory and i'm looking for a small, but nice looking wm.</STRONG>

Try pwm, small, both in filesize and on the screen. Efficient with windows through tabbed windows (like tabbed browsing, but with your windows themselves), and it has support for windowmaker dock applets. I've never seen it crash (or heard of it crash, ever). The developer is kind of a selfish bastard though.

[George Kilroy]

Have you checked out this (http://www.plig.org/xwinman/index.html) place? There are lots there. If you have the time why not try them all!

--then tell me which one has red title bars as default...it was one of my favorites, but I can't remember what it was called. :)

[mdwatts]

SWM - Small Window Manager
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~sperling/prog/swm.html

Just posted at freshmeat.net

[RTFM]

FVWM2 is also pretty small

[Siskmarek]

:cool: KDE :cool:

*gets beaten and thrown off the stage*

~ Siskie

[RTFM]

*grabs sismarek and retakes the stage, guns blazing*