KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium
III Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does
anyone know the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with
Slack 12.1?

John C.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:08:19 -0700, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium III
> Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does anyone know
> the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with Slack 12.1?

Xfce's requirement is significantly lower and should run OK on 128Mb.

Why don't you just fucking try it and see?

Free clue: "xwmconfig".


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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:08:19 -0700, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium III
> Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does anyone know
> the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with Slack 12.1?

Fluxbox is "lighter" than XFCE, but how the other window managers
in Slackware compare, I don't know. Here's a website that can give you an
idea, and that indicates XFCE isn't all that lightweight if you consider
all the libraries it needs:

http://www.gilesorr.org/wm/

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On 2008-07-24, john@wexfordpress.com <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium
> III Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does
> anyone know the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with
> Slack 12.1?

fvwm probably takes the least memory of all of them. I've run it on a
lot less than 128 Mbytes.

Bud

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:47:19 -0500, wrhamblen@comcast.net wrote:

>On 2008-07-24, john@wexfordpress.com <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium
>> III Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does
>> anyone know the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with
>> Slack 12.1?
>
>fvwm probably takes the least memory of all of them. I've run it on a
>lot less than 128 Mbytes.

Nah, gotta go twm :o)

Grant.
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john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium
> III Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does
> anyone know the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with
> Slack 12.1?
>

I'm still using the same window manager I was using 15 years ago: mwm.
The version from openmotif-2.3.0 takes about 8 meg under Slack 12.1...

In article <pan.2008.07.24.16.37.46.773960@moria2.lan>,
Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:08:19 -0700, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>
> > KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium III
> > Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does anyone know
> > the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with Slack 12.1?
>
> Xfce's requirement is significantly lower and should run OK on 128Mb.
>
> Why don't you just fucking try it and see?


Hey John, no one would dare say that to you on the Yahoo Groups Self-Pub
list :-) (They would on pub-forum!)

Private joke. I'll let John explain if he cares to. He's the alpha dog
on a list he moderates with two women.

ANC

Chris Sorenson <csoren@isd.net> writes:

>john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium
>> III Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does
>> anyone know the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with
>> Slack 12.1?
>>

>I'm still using the same window manager I was using 15 years ago: mwm.
>The version from openmotif-2.3.0 takes about 8 meg under Slack 12.1...

I like fvwm which comes on Slack (well, on my slack 12.0). Lean,
mean, & with some tinkering, you can create a buttonbar that starts
your favorite apps & a "look" & "sound".

In fact, I jury-rigged my laptop's ubuntu to run fvwm - big
improvement (for me) over the standard gnome wm.

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bgeer wrote:

> Chris Sorenson <csoren@isd.net> writes:
>
> >john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> >> KDE is jolly on my main machine but kind of chokes on my 128MB Pentium
> >> III Compaq. I note that xfce is an alternative among others. Does
> >> anyone know the memory requirements of the various guis shipped with
> >> Slack 12.1?
> >>
>
> >I'm still using the same window manager I was using 15 years ago: mwm.
> >The version from openmotif-2.3.0 takes about 8 meg under Slack 12.1...
>
> I like fvwm which comes on Slack (well, on my slack 12.0). Lean,
> mean, & with some tinkering, you can create a buttonbar that starts
> your favorite apps & a "look" & "sound".
>
> In fact, I jury-rigged my laptop's ubuntu to run fvwm - big
> improvement (for me) over the standard gnome wm.
>

But does it have a clipboard? Last I remember it didn't. And I can dispense
with much, but I do need a clipboard.

jjg <jjge@xs4all.nl> writes:

> But does it have a clipboard? Last I remember it didn't. And I can dispense
> with much, but I do need a clipboard.

Is xclipboard what you need?

atb



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