Small window managers / Re: [PD] map map map...

[Larry Troxler]

My one and only contribution to this message was changing the subject.

I'd been passsing on  the map^3 thread and only by accident found the
following gem:


On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
>
> > I've stopped using Gnome because, every time I open a new window in Pd,
> > Gnome frets for a second or 2 before showing it.  I recommend the much
> > faster and lighter "FVWM2" instead.
>
> For day-to-day use, I'm still quite happy with blackbox, but just for fun I
> recently tried sWM from http://www.small-window-manager.de
>
> This is a very super-nano-mini-tiny window-manager, but with enough
> features to get used to it for longer. It surely would make a great
> window-manager for performances. I was really surprised, that things felt
> faster using sWM. It doesn't have a real config file, everything is
> configured at compile time.
>
> - From the README:
> "sWM needs a minimum of 13840 bytes on your harddisk, depending on your
> selected features and configuration."
>
> Here is my "ls -l":
> enlightenment: 811536
> fvwm2:         325724
> blackbox:      163716
> sWM:            12388
>
> Now, that's small ;)
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