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

since he seems to still be using OSX

[JumpSuit Boy]

He is really asking for a Finder replacement. I personally use PathFinder. It gives easy access to

mounted volumes

running applications

stadard locations

a bunch of stuff I have not figured out it is payware though. .

time for an upgrade

[Anonymous Coward]

Those iBook's were horribly slow when they were introduced, and clamshell iBooks haven't been made in 2.5(?) years. If this is your primary/only "work machine", as your post implies, your company really needs to just buy you a much better computer. Any $2k desktop computer or $3k laptop [including memory, etc.] will have *much* more screen real estate and be *much* faster than that. I honestly just can't imagine that you could be very productive on that.

I would seriously consider saying to your boss "you are wasting my salary if you don't buy me a much better machine than this". Of course, times are tough at most companies; if you think your boss's conclusion would be that he should stop paying your salary, don't say that!

Of course, if this is a second computer or one that you don't need to do much work on, then ignore me.

OK not enough coffee yet

[JumpSuit Boy]

I should not post till I have had at least a pot.