Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

[Colonel]

In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
>
>Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce.  My laptop, which 
>was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under KDE) is 
>suddenly light on its feet.  Not to mention that it built from source in 
>under 10 minutes and installed with zero 'interesting problems'.
>
>After another year of optimizing the kernel to handle bloatware better, and 
>at the same time encouraging the 'big desktop' side of Linux to follow the 
>lead of these lightweight alternatives[1] we will be looking pretty good.

Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ?  It was designed long ago to
be lean and fast on the desktop.  I know it whips KDE.