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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,18:41 QUOTE

Hello;
I have been trying out various live CDs for a few months for a particular purpose. I need a lightweight linux build for my Toshiba 4030 laptop, which I use to have sessions on another box over a wireless link. I want to remove the hard drive from the laptop (to lighten it up) and boot directly from CD into RAM (no noisy disk accesses etc -- also, the laptop becomes more or less disposable.) I'm connecting via NoMachine to the Athlon 3200 box running SuSe 9.2. DSL works really well (!!) except for one thing: the window manager isn't as responsive as the setup in miniKnoppix. So for now, I'm using miniKnoppix 2005, which cannot fit into RAM -- only 192 mb (max) on board.

How can I improve the performance of DSL's window manager? Sometimes there is (for lack of a better phrase) double rendering of the screen. Drawing is also, generally, slower than miniKnoppix. Could a heavier window manager be installed?

Many thanks.

Brian.
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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,18:58 QUOTE

There are a couple of different window managers in the DSL repository.  You might want to start with fluxbox-0.9.11 and see if it is any better.  If not, then try ICEwm.  ICEwm is pretty nice, however, the .dsl has a problem with themes (you can't get it to stop looking like windows 95).  Look around in the WM_Apps section of MyDSL and see what you like.

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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,19:06 QUOTE

The DSL window manager is about is very fast compared to most others.

Try booting with the "minimal" cheatcode to see if it speeds things up.
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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,19:24 QUOTE

Fuzzy:  flux-0.9.11 is actually slower than the stable fluxbox in DSL.

For "faster than" from the repository, I'd say twm, evilwm, and ratpoison.


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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,01:01 QUOTE

/o/ \o\

twm!!

Fastest of the fast! Savior of systems with under 512k of ram! ALL HAIL X11R5!!!

I like twm.

-J.P.


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