On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:39:37PM -0600, Jason Zhang wrote:
> > Hi, I really want a elegant window manager for my sparcstation 5 in
> > NetBSD 2.0. the bound is that the CPU is just 110MHz, Video card just
> > support 8-bit color, and I only have a 2G disk in this sparc. I want
> > to install FVWM or Xfce4, but dont know how they will effect my
> > system.
> > 
> > So can you recommend a lighweight, fast and elegant window manager for
> > my SS5?
> 
> FVWM should be fine.  I haven't run Xfce4, but from what I've heard, it
> would be worth a try.

I've been using fvwm2 on my SparcStation 2 (40MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 2GB
disk). It's got a cg6 framebuffer. It isn't blindingly fast, but certainly
usable.

> I've had good luck with flwm (fast light window manager).  it is
> extremely minimal, but runs acceptably on even my slowest (25MHz
> decstation) hardware.

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