[ On Monday, January 24, 2005 at 12:39:37 (-0600), Jason Zhang wrote: ]
> Subject: Recommendation of Window Manager for SparcStation 5?
>
> 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?

I've run ctwm on everything I use for a very long time now.  it's
extremely lightweight, quite fast, very featureful and easily
customized, and it works well on monochrome, greyscale, 8-bit and
greater displays.

As I say, it's _VERY_ tiny.  I've had a copy running since mid-Nov now
on my main desktop machine and it's still sitting well under 2MB.  Note
that it's a static-linked copy too:

$ ps -up 2276
USER   PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ  RSS TT STAT STARTED     TIME COMMAND
woods 2276  0.0  1.0 1572 1256 ?? SNs  19Nov04 23:30.04 ctwm -k -display very.w

$ file /usr/X11R6/bin/ctwm                                          
/usr/X11R6/bin/ctwm: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), for NetBSD, statically linked, not stripped


That's with 8 workspaces, lots and lots of menus, and it's managing
quite a large number of windows too:

$ wc -l .ctwmrc
    1476 .ctwmrc



Also, FYI, here's the top of "top" output from my workstation:

load averages:  0.27,  0.16,  0.10                                     20:47:59
286 processes: 1 runnable, 277 sleeping, 7 zombie, 1 on processor
CPU states:  6.3% user,  0.0% nice,  7.3% system,  1.5% interrupt, 84.9% idle
Memory: 64M Act, 1068K Inact, 2220K Wired, 11M Exec, 27M File, 32M Free
Swap: 128M Total, 11M Used, 117M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 1845 root       2    0  7732K 6956K select    23.1H  7.28%  7.28% XsunMono
25278 woods     28    0   560K  512K CPU        0:01  2.51%  1.95% top
 2276 woods      2    4  1572K 1256K select    23:30  1.56%  1.56% ctwm
 2470 woods      2    0  2352K 1296K RUN        0:53  0.20%  0.20% xterm
 1480 root       2    0  3136K 1428K select   231:13  0.00%  0.00% snmpd
 2463 woods      2    4  1072K  712K select   140:41  0.00%  0.00% swisswatch


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