Subject: Re: fvwm2
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: kaz-k) <kazk@yyy.or.jp (Kazuyoshi Kato>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/26/1997 22:58:45
> Kazuyoshi Kato(kaz-k) wrote:
> >
> > However it's lighter than twm, isn't it? fvwm-1.24r is slightly
> > lighter, though.
> Uh, no. FVWM2 is most likely _not_ lighter than twm. Fvwm is no longer
> quite "feeble" anymore (well, it may be feeble, but it certainly no longer
> has the small memory footprint that it used to). The big memory tradeoff
> between fvwm 1.x and twm was mainly due to dropping much of the
> customizability of twm (and some kind of difference in storing mouse
> bindings). I have a feeling that fvwm2's increased functionality has
> upped it's memory footprint quite a bit.
>
> Later.
I talked about "window manager" itself, not "desktop environment"...
Well, I should explore fvwm2 more deeper, I'm still using 1.24r mainly,
anyway.
See you.
-- kaz-k