Yes, I'm using Enlightenment which seems OK as long as you ignore all its excess baggage of themes, backgrounds etc. But for those with really minimalist tendencies there is on my (Mandrake) system a WM called TWM, for Tiny Window Manager. I've fiddled about with it and it doesn't appear very user friendly but might be worth some persistence. Incidentally I just got the Staroffice CD and was trying it out by editing a small document, thought things were a bit sluggish, checked memory use and found that of my 64mb RAM and 128mb swap Staroffice was using around 130mb! Do I need more memory or is this excessive?? In message 200003021205.MAA03337@orac.techprt.co.uk, Ian Thompson-Bell itb@techprt.co.uk writes
Gnome is not a window manager -- instead it will happily use any gnome-compliant one. The rather ponderous Enlightenment has been the default, but is soon to be replaced by the slightly faster sawmill. You could also choose to use the wonderful IceWM (but use the gtk2 theme, I think), blackbox-gnome or fvwm-gnome.
Whoops sorry, of course I meant Enlightenment - its confusing enough that Gnome is plastered all over the GUI on my version. I find Enlightenment quite swift; certainly much more so than KDE.
Ian
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