Yes, I'm using Enlightenment which seems OK as long as you ignore all its excess baggage of themes, backgrounds etc.
Yes, there are some very dark, odd, weird themes out there - makes you wonder a bit about the people that created them.
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.
I think TWM is quite commonly available - its probably on my redhhat dist but I have not checked. It's mentioned in most of the 'learn everything possible about Linux in 21 days' type books where it's referred to as Tom's Window Manager, presumably after the man who wrote it.
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??
I am not sure. I have run up Star Office but not used it in earnest. Did not seem noticably sluggish to me. That amount of memory usage does seem excessive but remember Linux mamory usage figures need carefull interpretation.
Ian
Ian Thompson-Bell
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