Window Managers For Small Screens?

saintlupus writes "I've got a question for the rest of the Slashdot community. I'm using an old clamshell iBook at work with Debian/PPC on it. As any Apple site can tell you, the iBooks of that era had a maximum resolution of 800x600. Now, I use a 19" monitor and a 17" monitor running together with Xinerama on my machine at home, and I'm used to that much space. I use WindowMaker on that computer, but on an 800x600 screen those Dock icons look the size of buses. Can anyone recommend a window manager that uses a minimum of screen real estate so that I can fit a bit more on the iBook's LCD?"

Comments

Not a window manager problem, it's config problem

[BRSloth]

Well, IMHO, the problem it's not related with a Window Manager, but with the config you are using. You can disable de dock and the clip and even the icons, so you can have all the screen just for you, even still using Window Maker.

There are also some other window managers that you can try:
- enlightenment: try the spiff theme
- sawfish: spiff theme
- icewm: there is a port of tigertcrack, I think it's called 'tgc' or 'IceCrack'. Very small borders and very keyboard friendly.
- blackbox, openbox, fluxbox: all the box variants have small borders, and using the slit you can still use your favorite dockapps, using the "auto-hide" feature.
- metacity: I don't know how usable it is when not coupled with all the GNOME stuff, but the window title bar is always resized to the size of your font. So, smaller fonts, smaller borders.

And, if you brave enough, you can even try twn!

Don't you really mean...

[Crayon Kid]

...that you want smaller dockapps? I mean, most window managers can hide their docks or panels anyway, so i don't see what difference the wm makes.