[PD] OT: Lightest Fastest Linux Window Manager

[Bart Koppe]

Hi,
I always tend to go for Blackbox if I need lightwight. Very light, 
quite manual..
Howto is still current :) 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=125084
Best,
Bart

On 2013-02-14 22:08, Thomas Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 14.02.2013 19:40, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I am setting up a Asus netbook for Pure Data/Gem/pidip and would 
>> like to not load the hoggish unity or even gnome seems to slow this 
>> little guy down.
>> Can linux users suggest a window manager that might serve me best 
>> for this purpose.
>
> LXDE: It comes e.g. with Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi and is really
> usable, Lubuntu is the Ubuntu variant with it. It used GTK as default
> tookit.
>
> XFCE: My favourite, I am using it on a 1 GHz one core Pentium 4 with
> Debian, and works really fast. The Ubuntu variant is called Xubuntu.
> Toolkit: GTK.
>
> Fluxbox: really lightweight, have not used in in years.
>
> Other lightweight WMs, that I have briefly tested, but not really 
> used:
> Englightenment, Openbox, Window Maker.
>
> HTH,
> Thomas

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