[Soekris] [OT] X11 Window Managers (was: PCI Video Solutions?)

[The Fungi]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:21:38PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Right.  A window manager is actually fairly little overhead per se.  (A
> lot of window managers are bloated resource pigs, but that's a
> completely separate issue.  Just because a WM *can* be a resource pig
> doesn't mean it *must* be.  My own (severely minimalist) WM, for
> example, runs in less than 200 KB of memory, according to ps.)

Well, remember that you don't even *have* to use a WM in X. I spent
years just telling applications where to set their origin on the
screen. Nonetheless, the ratpoison window manager, which I find very
usable, is occupying less than 4k of memory on my workstation as I
type this.
-- 
{ IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657);
SMTP(fungi at yuggoth.org); IRC(fungi at irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); ICQ(114362511);
AIM(dreadazathoth); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); FINGER(fungi at yuggoth.org);
MUD(fungi at katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); }