I've finally got annoyed at how much ram Gnome was using up, and decided to have a look at various other light weight systems, including:
- ion3
- blackbox
- icewm
- metacity
- twm
- ratpoison
I generally got the feeling I'd popped back to 1994 and was using Slackware or something. This laptop doesn't have a lot of ram, but it's got enough to be able to run something that looks nice. As this is the computer I use most of the time, it does need to look nice.
However, I finally install xfce4. I do have to say, I'm very impressed. It looks nice, has all the functionality I'm looking for, and just works
TM. There's a couple of panels that don't seem to be installable at the moment, but this seems to be being worked on at the moment. It also has the advantage of huggie being one of the maintainers, so I have someone to prod if I get stuck. Sorry in advance huggie :)
