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From: John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 01:58:08 -0000 (UTC)
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:12:57 -0000 (UTC)
> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> 
> Of all things, WindowMaker - mostly because it's a bit more featureful
> than bare-bones roll-your-own-desktop options like FVWM while still
> being fairly lightweight and customizable ...

Ages ago I did a mem test on all window managers Slackware
shipped plus a few others.

Due to what you get with WindowMager, I was surprised to see
WindowMaker was in the top 3 of lightest window managers.
The only ones that was lighter was icewm and ctwm.  To me,
the people who did WindowMaker really knows their stuff!

When I get bored, I will need to do that test again, I still
use Slackware on my main laptop.

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