just open a terminal (alt+ctrl+F1) right after the login screen appears, and you’ll find that oS takes another minute or two finishing it’s business: starting httpd, mysql, hald, among others. (i find that complaints that KDE takes too long to load these days are probably partially misplaced. the whole thing takes around 1 MB of disk space, and i don’t find any awesome-related processes taking up memory or CPU.Īwesome starts instantly–after openSUSE really finishes loading, that is. I’ve been using it for a few days now and it’s extremely easy on resources. > is a resources sipper and hope your post answers the OP’s question… > of weak hardware so, (still unaware of Awesome’s needs) i wonder if it > but note that the initial poster was looking for less than KDE because I like this better than fluxbox LXDE i haven’t even tried, since i’m afraid it’ll feel like a slimmed-down version of KDE. but that didn’t get me much further than those first steps. for the first steps, information can be found at the awesome homepage ( ), and at the wiki ( ). I didn’t use any other tiling WMs, so the whole concept is new for me. sometimes i just want a break, see something different, and at other times i expect to be hard-locked pretty soon, playing around with virtualbox per example, and don’t want to spend the time it takes to log into KDE (or GNOME, which isn’t much faster these days).Īs i wrote in an earlier reply, the (to my knowledge) latest version can be installed via this address: ![]() iv’e been using fluxbox as a quick alternative to KDE. i looked at it, installed it, and find it quite interesting. it’s the first time i’m hearing about this WM.> flexible and very stable (due to its clearly arranged code). ![]() It uses extremely few resources, is highly > around for two or three years now and is permanently developed with a > is some obscure piece of code, which it definitely is not. > I might be wrong, but you seem to imply that the awesome window manager > heard of XFCE, LXDE and other known good stuff for old systems…
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