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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