On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:41:38 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <mknecht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) Gnome/KDE are compicated environments. For test purposes at least try > something like fluxbox which runs almost nothing by defualt. (I don't know > windowmaker - it may be pretty minimal already.) Windowmaker has its own sound server, extensions like meters and mixers for the dock, etc, etc... It's reasonably easy to set up, massively stable, extensible, efficient, yadda, yadda... I think Gnome and Kde pretty nice but maybe a bit more oriented to office applications and home users. If you just want to run an application or a small group of applications at a time or if you want to set up your own environment you can't beat X. MWM, Flux/Open/Blackbox, FVWM ...Afterstep.