[ale] Window Managers for X

[Marvin, International Martian of Mystery]

jallgood at the-allgoods.net wrote:
> Hey Ale
>
> 	We are using Neoware thin clients in our environment and connect
> back to an XDM servers. We currently use Metro Motif Window manager which is
> a commercial product. This company is no longer in business. I am looking
> for a replacement Window Manager that is light and easy to configure. I was
> thinking of OpenMotif but this desktop does not have a virtual desktop
> feature anymore. I have looked at fluxbox, fvwm, xfce and a few others. The
> Window Manager needs to support virtual desktops and transient windowing it
> also needs a gloral rc file to make it easier to manage. Any ideas would be
> appreciated.
>   
If I were in your boots, I would seriously consider KDE for the 
thin-clients.  I'll bet if you leave out the eyecandy, various pointless 
panel applets, system sound servers, and whatnot in your install that 
you'd have a memory/system resource footprint less than Enlightenment. 

It has virtual desktops, configurable pop-up menus for 3 mouse buttons 
(you can make them behave just like fvwm, if you want to), and just 
about everything else you wanted.  Plus, you'd have konqueror and/or 
krusader for a file manager- which are worlds faster to work with than 
any of the other file managers out there (IMHO).   

It's not *that much* heavier on system resources than XFCE or FVWM, even 
with all the bells and whistles- or so it seems from my subjective 
perspective of running several local and remote instances on one 
workstation.  Your mileage may vary in your thin client/server 
situation.  But I'll guarantee that even KDE is lighter-weight than E.  
:-)