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Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3

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On 2014-03-10, Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-03-09, RS Wood wrote:
>> On 2014-02-26, RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>> From the "swapity-swapity-swap" department:
>>> Title: A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops  - Part 3
>
> I switched from XFCE to xmonad about a year ago, and haven't looked
> back.  I'm hooked on tiling window managers for sure, and xmonad has
> terrific support for multiple monitors.
>
> I haven't uninstalled XFCE just in case I come across something that
> doesn't play well with a tiling WM.  At some point, I'll get around
> to replacing XFCE with one of these really tiny ones, but I don't
> even start a second X display anymore.

I prefer Windowmaker on a desktop and E17 on my netbook, both pretty
heavyweight systems by the standards of things like xmonad.  But someone
mentioned an old twm derivative by the name of vtwm on a Slashdot post
earlier this year or late last year.  So I compiled it and have had
playing around with it.  

My conclusion is that most of what I use a window manager for is already
present in this early, lightweight stuff.  So where do the extra GBs go? 

I also rediscovered how much I like the viewport concept to windowmakers
(FVWM also uses it).  It's more intuitive to me than virtual desktops,
and way more intuitive than KDE4's Workspaces, which only seem to annoy
me.

http://vtwm.org if you're curious.  

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Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-09 19:34 +0000
  Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-03-10 20:53 +0000
  Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-10 21:24 +0000
    Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 19:42 +0000
      Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-15 06:45 +0000
      X window managers Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2014-03-20 10:09 +0000
  Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 unixb4coffee <unixb4coffee@gmail.com> - 2014-03-20 11:11 -0700
    Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2014-03-20 14:08 -0500
      Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-20 20:25 +0100
        Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2014-03-20 21:21 -0500
        Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 unixb4coffee <unixb4coffee@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 10:54 -0700
          Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2014-03-22 14:13 -0500
      Re: Memory comparison of Linux light desktops, pt 3 Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-06-25 10:26 +0200

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