What just about everyone said supports your plan. You can get rid of the desktop environments themselves but keep the gtk & qt libraries as some programs that you use may depend on them.
A machine with weak resources is a nice opportunity to explore new programs and window managers to see which ones can help enhance your computintg experience.
The 'box family of window managers is nice as long as you like the look. IceWM is pretty good as well. I think when I was doing some informal testing (just running top while using various window managers) Fvwm seemed to consume the least amount of resources while making quite a few features available. Only problem from my nit-picky perspective -- default look is pretty ugly.
With that said the screenshots on the Fvwm site suggest that you can tweak it to your liking if you are willing to play with the config files.
I think I may eventually conduct a Fvwm experiment when I have the opportunity. [pbharris: Any recommended reading beyond the man pages?]
A few more suggestions for "lightweight apps":
For a graphical file manager you can try Rox (although it requires gtk).
For web browsing you can experiment with links http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/
Aterm -- a nice Xterm replacement.
I guess if you really wanted your machine to be responsive you could do without any GUI environment all together and just find command line/terminal based apps for most of your needs. This could also be fun to try but may not suit your preferred style of computing. Overall though I would look at your situation as an opportunity to try out new stuff and have fun.
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What just about everyone said supports your plan. You can get rid of the desktop environments themselves but keep the gtk & qt libraries as some programs that you use may depend on them.
A machine with weak resources is a nice opportunity to explore new programs and window managers to see which ones can help enhance your computintg experience.
The 'box family of window managers is nice as long as you like the look. IceWM is pretty good as well. I think when I was doing some informal testing (just running top while using various wiindow managers) Fvwm seemed to consume the least amount of resources while making quite a few features available. Only problem from my nit-picky perspective -- default look is pretty ugly.
With that said the screenshots on the Fvwm site suggest that you can tweak it to your liking if you are willing to play with the config files.
I think I may eventually conduct a Fvwm experiment when I have the opportunity. [pbharris: Any recommended reading beyond the man pages?]
A few more suggestions for "lightweight apps":
For a graphical file manager you can try Rox (although it requires gtk).
For web browsing you can experiment with links http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/
Aterm -- a nice Xterm replacement.
I guess if you really wanted your machine to be responsive you could do without any GUI environment all together and just find command line/terminal based apps for most of your needs. This could also be fun to try but may not suit your preferred style of computing. Overall though I would look at your situation as an opportunity to try out new stuff and have fun.
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1) Thanks Everyone. I really appreciate your help
2) OK. I have just deleted KDE && GNOME. It cleared about 600 Megs of Space (WoW!) I have FVWM2, IceWM, Blackbox * , Fluxbox and twm (pfff). I am using Blackbox as my default WM (hence the star). I will as all of you primarily suggest check out new things.I am using Aterm, LInks came with Slack, which is awesome! heh, and then now I will try some other WM's like FVWM. Last time I tried it it was different.
3) I really appreciate all of you helping me. Thanks, once again!
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