CentOS - Aug 2017 - Light-weight window manager, recommendations

So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa 2009, and
I'm
going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, not
tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager?

Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm going to do is use it to
read webmail and browse, read news, etc, so I don't need a lot.

      mark

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 05:32:39PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us
wrote:
> So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa 2009,
and I'm
> going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, not
> tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager?
> 
> Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm going to do is use it
to
> read webmail and browse, read news, etc, so I don't need a lot.
> 
>       mark
I've got an Asus eeepc 901, originally with their brain-damaged
Linux (which means it has a 4 gig and a 16-gig ssd, whereas the
windoze version had 4 and 12. go figure.)

I used to run fedora on it, with Gnome. before Gnome went to the
awful thing they produce now. I mostly don't use it for much of
anything anymore because it is so g-awful slow. I upgraded it from
1 gig RAM to 2 gigs some years ago.

I dealt with the split storage by installing /usr on the 16-gig
drive, leaving enough room on the 4 for all the rest of root. right
now I forget where I was putting swap. Since Fedora removed the
ability to split /usr off from the rest of the root filesystem I
haven't really messed with it. I suspect it would get pretty tight
on that limited storage.

I also have an Acer Aspire One netbook, somewhat younger than the
Asus, it has a dual-core Atom (with hyper threading) but it is still
pretty slow, just somewhat less so. It also has 2 gigs of RAM, up
from the original 1 gig.

I use the Mate desktop on it, but I don't know how that rates in terms
of being "light". I keep, halfheartedly, looking for a lightweight
distro to put on it with hopes it won't be such a dog, but every one
I've seen that really is lightweight is missing so many features/tools/
apps that I can't bear to actually use them.

So, I don't know what would be light enough to make it non-painful to
use. Should you find something, please post here so I can also give it
a try.

thanks!

Fred
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 05:32:39PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us
wrote:
> So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa 2009,
and I'm
> going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, not
> tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager?
> 
> Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm going to do is use it
to
> read webmail and browse, read news, etc, so I don't need a lot.
The dwm manager is one of the lightest ones around.
I have a page on it with links to better pages.

http://srobb.net/dwm.html

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m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa 2009,
and I'm
> going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, not
> tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager?
>
> Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm going to do is use it
to
> read webmail and browse, read news, etc, so I don't need a lot.
fvwm

There is no better WM anyway.

Other than that, i3.  It?s a tiled WM, so may take some getting used to,
yet it might be ideal for your purpose.  They even react kindly to bug
reports and feature requests.

I use Xfce.  Got into it on my arm boards with Fedora-arm, and run it on 
my notebook with Fedora_x64.

Thing is that it is not a group for Centos, you have to do the install 
by apps which I can help with, as I have installed it on a ClearOS7 
server.  A few things ARE missing and I really need to submit a bug 
report about that...

But Xfce is really good to work with.

Bob

On 08/04/2017 05:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa 2009,
and I'm
> going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, not
> tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager?
>
> Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm going to do is use it
to
> read webmail and browse, read news, etc, so I don't need a lot.
>
>        mark
>
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Oh,

I should mention that I have an Asus ee900 running F21 with Xfce. Works 
great for what I want it for...

Bob

On 08/07/2017 11:55 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I use Xfce.  Got into it on my arm boards with Fedora-arm, and run it 
> on my notebook with Fedora_x64.
>
> Thing is that it is not a group for Centos, you have to do the install 
> by apps which I can help with, as I have installed it on a ClearOS7 
> server.  A few things ARE missing and I really need to submit a bug 
> report about that...
>
> But Xfce is really good to work with.
>
> Bob
>
> On 08/04/2017 05:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa
2009, and
>> I'm
>> going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, 
>> not
>> tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager?
>>
>> Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm going to do is use
it to
>> read webmail and browse, read news, etc, so I don't need a lot.
>>
>>        mark
>>
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