[Leaplist] Smallest wm for Gentoo

[Kevin Korb]

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fvwm1 is only 248 KB
The size of the download doesn't really add up to memory usage.  fvwm2
is big because it contains a bunch of hieroglyphics that fvwm1 doesn't.

On 02/10/10 17:11, Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Wed, February 10, 2010 5:08 pm, Tom Foster wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:47:26PM -0500, Kevin Inscoe wrote:
>>> I have need of a small X app to stay up and running a service and the
>>> only hw I have available for this right now is a 512MB old dell
>>> desktop. What is the smallest footprint in terms of ram needed window
>>> manager that would be supported in Gentoo?
>>
>> ratpoison?
> 
> *  x11-wm/ratpoison
> 
> Size of files: 417 kB
> 
> *  x11-wm/evilwm
> 
> Size of files: 30 kB
> 
> *  x11-wm/fvwm
> 
> Size of files: 2,462 kB
> 
> smallest footprint? hmm...
> 

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