burek
November 24th, 2006, 08:09 PM
To have lightest-weight but either xfce4 or fluxbox
Thank you for the information
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update:
I investigated: XFCE is definitely not a very lightweight one !!! (for up to 128MB ram PC)
XFCE (140MB) takes me ~40% more than fluxbox (70MB).
List of lightweight window manager:
(default install, no tuning) (classment from the minimalist)
(first, we have quite a lot of windows manager under linux, whihc is great)
(legend:
THEMES1 quite minimalist theme chooser and freshmeat.org visit adviced and terminal too but theme working !
THEMES2 Window THEMES chooser from the apt-get or already available !!))
THEMES3 High-Tech themes levels
(I should do to a binding level window chooser... (bindingswm))
== ultra light == level 0 ===
0 - TinyWM (you cannot find lighter) 50 lines of C
1 - twm
2 - jwm (and sisters)
== minimalist == level 1 ===
2 - Openbox 65MB fvwm and blackbox (the two lightest) 65-69 MB THEMES1
3 - fvwm based
4 - Icewm (69,9 MB) THEMES1-2
== minimalist advanced === level 2 ====
5 - fluxbox (70-72MB) THEMES1
5 - Metacity (70-72MB) (apt-get install metacity) THEMES3 bindings
... fvwm based advanced ; metacity is very great since you can use the stuffs from gnome
and still very light. nfo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity)
=== level 3 ====
6 - light-xfce4 (tuned) (75MB) THEMES2 (bindingswm)
7 - sawfish (80-82MB) THEMES2 (bindingswm)
=== level 4 ====
8 - (XFCE = quite slow for very old machines for museums) THEMES2
(Please stop saying that a ultra lightweight, it is medium )
(flubox is great for very old machines for museums)
110MB (bindingswm)
==== level 5 === Userfrienly ===
... and far away:
10 - gnome / KDE (hug of memory damn !! but we like it this so userfriendly) (bindingswm) THEMES3
UPDATE II:KS
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After fighting with mw linux machine in config files; I just found the way to make it lighter thsi xfce with keeping the possibility of changing your windows styles and so on:
apt-get -f install thunar orage xfmedia xfce4-mixer
apt-get install python2.4-xfce python-xfce
apt-get install python-dev
apt-get -f install libxfce4util4 libxfce4util-dev
apt-get -f install python-xfce
You can edit go in /usr/share/xsessions
cp xfce4.desktop lightxfce.desktop
into lightxfce.desktop ;
change to make the name lightxfce
and replace startxfce4 by /usr/bin/xfwm4
restart gdm /etc/init.d/gdm restart
then;
select for sessions from the gdm lightxfce
your lighterxfce starts I guess
to configure your bindings and lightxfce ; type : xfce-setting-show
qnd eveerythings works like it was more or less : windows styles; bindings ....
I am still looking for a light menu to logout/ I used logout via bindings
and xfce-setting-show taht I define as flag + pause
and the New Dude is as LIGHTWEIGHT as flubox !! a bit lighter even !
and I have my windows styles and can change them as much as xfce-pluging themes as
Burek
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Thank you for the information
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==================
update:
I investigated: XFCE is definitely not a very lightweight one !!! (for up to 128MB ram PC)
XFCE (140MB) takes me ~40% more than fluxbox (70MB).
List of lightweight window manager:
(default install, no tuning) (classment from the minimalist)
(first, we have quite a lot of windows manager under linux, whihc is great)
(legend:
THEMES1 quite minimalist theme chooser and freshmeat.org visit adviced and terminal too but theme working !
THEMES2 Window THEMES chooser from the apt-get or already available !!))
THEMES3 High-Tech themes levels
(I should do to a binding level window chooser... (bindingswm))
== ultra light == level 0 ===
0 - TinyWM (you cannot find lighter) 50 lines of C
1 - twm
2 - jwm (and sisters)
== minimalist == level 1 ===
2 - Openbox 65MB fvwm and blackbox (the two lightest) 65-69 MB THEMES1
3 - fvwm based
4 - Icewm (69,9 MB) THEMES1-2
== minimalist advanced === level 2 ====
5 - fluxbox (70-72MB) THEMES1
5 - Metacity (70-72MB) (apt-get install metacity) THEMES3 bindings
... fvwm based advanced ; metacity is very great since you can use the stuffs from gnome
and still very light. nfo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity)
=== level 3 ====
6 - light-xfce4 (tuned) (75MB) THEMES2 (bindingswm)
7 - sawfish (80-82MB) THEMES2 (bindingswm)
=== level 4 ====
8 - (XFCE = quite slow for very old machines for museums) THEMES2
(Please stop saying that a ultra lightweight, it is medium )
(flubox is great for very old machines for museums)
110MB (bindingswm)
==== level 5 === Userfrienly ===
... and far away:
10 - gnome / KDE (hug of memory damn !! but we like it this so userfriendly) (bindingswm) THEMES3
UPDATE II:KS
==========
After fighting with mw linux machine in config files; I just found the way to make it lighter thsi xfce with keeping the possibility of changing your windows styles and so on:
apt-get -f install thunar orage xfmedia xfce4-mixer
apt-get install python2.4-xfce python-xfce
apt-get install python-dev
apt-get -f install libxfce4util4 libxfce4util-dev
apt-get -f install python-xfce
You can edit go in /usr/share/xsessions
cp xfce4.desktop lightxfce.desktop
into lightxfce.desktop ;
change to make the name lightxfce
and replace startxfce4 by /usr/bin/xfwm4
restart gdm /etc/init.d/gdm restart
then;
select for sessions from the gdm lightxfce
your lighterxfce starts I guess
to configure your bindings and lightxfce ; type : xfce-setting-show
qnd eveerythings works like it was more or less : windows styles; bindings ....
I am still looking for a light menu to logout/ I used logout via bindings
and xfce-setting-show taht I define as flag + pause
and the New Dude is as LIGHTWEIGHT as flubox !! a bit lighter even !
and I have my windows styles and can change them as much as xfce-pluging themes as
Burek
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