Re: Window managers

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

I'm a long-time OLVWM bigot, and OLVWM is a very old (over ten years)
window manager. Right now, I'm starting to compare OLVWM and XFCE.
Both are very fast, refreshingly light and responsive, as well as being
easy on memory. 

Both take a rather minimalist approach to the roles they play in things.
Both are very configurable, and both are supported in the Free Software
community. XFCE had adopted much of the L&F of Motif/CDE, so if you're 
comfortable with that, you might lean that way. OLVWM usually comes
unencumbered by almost any setup at all, but menus and other supplementary 
items are available over the 'net. I don't know if XFCE will allow all
X-apps to run, but OLVWM certainly does, as long as you have the approp-
riate libraries. There are probably more toolkits and the like available
for OLVWM, so it's a good place to do protoyping and the like; given the 
number of people working in XFCE, this may change soon (I don't know what
tools are available for XFCE).

IMO both are worth looking into, XFCE may be more accessible these days,
since it ships with a couple of popular distros. Red Hat stopped shipping
OLVWM with RH 5.0, but it is still available directly over the net, and in
several other distributions.

As I see it right now, either would make an excellent choice for a light-
weight, flexible, high-performance WM.

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