[openbox] recommended WM using low resources?

[Globe Trotter]

Hi,

Thanks very much for your detailed e-mail! I am trying to live in a non-DE world, so I thought I would cast my net and see which of the four (FVWM, OB, FB, PekWM, or something else) I should consider.

I use my desktop for almost everything but also for routine, quite heavy computation. I would therefore like to have the background processes to have low memory footprint and CPU usage if possible, while not giving up a whole lot of functionality.

That in a nutshell is what I am pursuing. I am thankful to the discussion so far.

Best wishes!

--- On Thu, 10/13/11, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.botella at gmail.com> wrote:


> Unless something changed in the last few years (and I doubt
> that) twm
> is incredibly horrible when it comes to memory usage. It's
> probably
> suboptimal in cpu as well, but I never tested that.
> 
> About speed, it's hard to guess... It all depends on what
> exactly we
> measure. I bet fvwm and openbox are probably much faster
> when it comes
> to mapping windows. But that's only a part of managing
> windows. A
> window manager does a lot of tasks and benchmarks usually
> look at
> whatever their writer(s) want it to show about their
> favourite WM.
> 
> In any case, twm can't do anything. There are much smaller
> WMs that
> have a much smaller memory footprint. Compile time options
> also matter
> here, and architecture. In the case of fvwm, and due to its
> modular
> nature, the user configuration matters *a whole lot*.
> Running fvwm
> without extra modules, without svg support, no background
> and the
> standard menu can be done below 1mb or ram, probably. But
> that can
> quickly grow into a few dozen mb's provided you are
> creative enough.
> 
> The *boxes are probably somewhere between 1 and 4 mb, but
> as said that
> can greatly vary depending on a number of factors.
> 
> These numbers are what I remember from my own tests on an
> amd64/x86
> box a few years ago, using Gentoo.
> 
> Without knowing if the original poster is pursuing any
> concrete info
> or goal I can't really say anything more useful.
> 
> Cheers :)
> -- 
> Jesús Guerrero Botella
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