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[pbleser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pascal Bleser)]

what about ICEwm ?
is it good ?
nice design ?
never saw a screenshot :-(

Pascal
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Lankton <satan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Date: mardi 12 mai 1998 23:55
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] why fvwm2 anyway ??

>
>This is from a p200mmx with 64mbs ram running only an xterm running top:
>Blackbox            1.4%memory usage
>Icewm               1.5%
>Afterstep            1.5%
>fvwm2               1.8%
>WindowMaker    2.6%
>Enlightenment     8.3%
>kde                    26.6%
>
>These numbers really don't mean a thing, I was just curious after reading
this
>thread all day long.  I use WindowMaker as my primary window manager, and I
>believe the memory usage it displayed was a little high because of
excessive
>pixmap usage on my part.  E has never claimed to not eat memory or cpu, and
X used
>more of both while it was running, but I was a little shocked by how much
kde
>used.  In all fairness, kde is a collection of applications running
simultaneously
>and not a single app like most window managers.  I use Icewm as root,  and
I would
>have to say that it "feels" faster than any of the others, but the
difference
>between how it runs vs. fvwm2, afterstep, or WindowMaker is splitting
hairs.
>
>Mike Hostetler wrote:
>
>> > I like fvwm because of the ease of configuration and low resource
>> > drain. I have not seen a WM that proves to be less resource (RAM,
>> > swap space, hard disk space) intensive than fvwm. Maybe Blackbox
>> > would?
>>
>> I have found fvwm2 to be even less of a resource drain then fvwm1.
>> The rc file is different, though.
>>
>> - mikeh
>>
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>> ||   `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just
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>> ||    stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system,
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>> ||    *for free*".'              - Linus Torvalds
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