Comments on: Success! IceWM 1.2.36 and Xorg 7.3 at 100Mhz/16Mb

By: X and Openbox in 12Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

X and Openbox in 12Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:07:51 +0000

[...] Openbox is running the desktop in those screenshots too, and while that’s no miracle, it is amazing to me that GTK2 applications like Leafpad or gcolor2 or even obconf run without undue hassle. Yes, everything is still ugly slow, just because 150Mhz is ugly slow. But at least it’s not as bad as GTK2 was at 16Mb. [...]

By: A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:22:59 +0000

[...] of my earliest coups with the late 100Mhz Pentium laptop, the close relative to this one, was a stripped-down Crux-driven IceWM desktop. But even at that early date, I could tell that a machine with only 16Mb was suffering with [...]

By: Putting the Pentium back to work « Motho ke motho ka botho

Putting the Pentium back to work « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:35:31 +0000

[...] But it was not to be. I’ve tried two different installations, building each one by scratch on a surrogate machine, and neither one would reach the graphical desktop. X complains every time that there is inadequate memory to start anything graphical, which is odd, since I have proof of the opposite. [...]

By: Working with VESA 1.2 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Working with VESA 1.2 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:07:27 +0000

[...] actually do a graphical desktop, and I’ve used it for some unusual setups in the past — IceWM, Awesome, even Openbox once or twice (with terrible results ). But it’s a slow beast, [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:55:56 +0000

Hmm. I haven't patched anything, unless 1.2.36 handles things differently than other versions in other distros. Check the WinClassic2 theme on box-look.org. When I started with this rendition, I used the stock theme there, and corrected what I thought to be wrong. http://www.box-look.org/content/show.php/winclassic2?content=66341

By: James

James — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:31:41 +0000

I think he’s patched IceWM so the launcher buttons aren’t beveled.

By: deflated

deflated — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:56:26 +0000

Your WinClassic2 theme looks different to the ones I have found on the internet. Do you mind sharing yours? Thanks in advance.

By: niw3

niw3 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:41:12 +0000

Wow, that’s great!

I was considering installing a Linux distro on a PC/104 single board computer. It has 64MB RAM and 32MB ROM. I can connect a USB disk for more disk space. The CPU is 468 compatible and works at 133 MHz. Ideal for DOS/Embedded Linuces but I wonder how the graphical desktop performance will be. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

By: Some minor improvements « Motho ke motho ka botho

Some minor improvements « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:50:34 +0000

[...] Set up Ubuntu for speed « Success! IceWM 1.2.36 and Xorg 7.3 at 100Mhz/16Mb [...]

By: vitorios

vitorios — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:18:48 +0000

Great work!