From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: As it seems that the low-memory-using WindowMaker is deprecitated from Red Hat Linux release 8.0.92 (Phoebe) and future releases (I hope I'm wrong), I want to make the following suggestion. I have a 64 MB HP Vectra workstation at my work at my disposable. This workstation has been running RH 7.3 for quite a while. This morning I installed RH 8.0.92 on it and came to the conclusion that for decently working with the current KDE and GNOME _at least_ 128 MB is required for normal usage. .... Luckely I had an alternative - the 'Failsafe' option from GDM. This in combination with "twm" (which is always installed with X if I'm correct) or "mwm" gives a light-weight working environment for the user on a older workstation. Here's my proposal : Could it be possible to include the following entries as new Sessions to choose from (defined in the directory /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions). MWM TWM The entries could be part of the corresponding packages so that they are only visible when the corresponding packages are installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH 8.0.92 on a low-end machine. 2. Come to the conclusion that both KDE and GNOME aren't very fast under the conditions. 3.type "twm" or "mwm" in a Failsafe session. Actual Results: As better-than-nothing alternatives for Window Maker "twm" and "mwm" are satisfactory. (if WindowMaker is really depricated). Expected Results: - WindowMaker - TWM - MWM should have entries in the Sessions menu. Additional info:
The way to use these setups is to create a ~/.Xclients that runs them, then use the "Default" session ("Default" means ".Xclients if present", oddly) They require some technical skill to use so people should have to use the command line to enable them. You can also of course trivially drop new session scripts into /etc/X11/whereverit is.