01-29-2013
You are obviously looking for a resource-saving OS. My suggestion is to use the FreeBSD you already tried and fine-tune X-Windows with a window-manager of your choice, but stay away from the "Desktops".
I have to admit that i hate desktops with a passion because all (regardless of being KDE, GNOME or whatever i have come across) are power-hungry monsters which mostly do what their creators suppose to be cool instead of what i want. My system of choice is a native X and mwm (Motif Window Manager) on top. mwm is simple to configure, there is exactly one file: "~/.mwmrc", which contains the main menu, which pops up if you right-click into the root window. IMHO this is all the GUI one needs. I despise all the toolbars, icons and whatnot, which is just cluttering my valuable monitor area.
If you want a window manager with a little more functionality you might consider "fvwm", but you will have to (re-)write a 50kbyte-config-file and i never bothered to learn the myriads of keywords and what irrelevant behavior they control. Still, fvwm has a very small footprint compared to monsters like compiz and the like. Yes, it (like mwm too) can't create half-transparent octagonal terminal windows which wobble if you touch them with the mouse and have a 3-D image in true-colour as background, but, honestly, my work as sysadmin has rarely suffered from this shortcoming. An xterm with a solid background and a well readable font in one colour is perfectly enough for my simple taste.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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MWM(1x) LessTif Manuals MWM(1x)
NAME
mwm - The M*tif Window Manager
SYNOPSIS
mwm [-toolkitoption ...] [-debug] [-xrm resourcestring ] [-multiscreen] [-name name ] [-screens [name [name [...]] ] [-version] [-V]
DESCRIPTION
mwm is a window manager that adheres largely to the Motif mwm specification.
OPTIONS
In addition to the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(1)), mwm accepts the following options:
-xrm resourcestring
Set resource
-display display
Specifies display to be used
-debug
Enable debugging. This includes synchronous sending of requests to the X server.
-multiscreen
Use multiple screens.
-name name
Make mwm retrieve its resources using the given name
-screens [name [name [...]]
Manage multiple screens. Not yet supported
-version
Print version information to stderr.
FILES
/etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc
The system wide configuration file. See mwmrc(5) for further details.
~/.mwmrc
Per user configuration file. See mwmrc(5) for further details.
X Resources
mwm supports a number of resources. It departs from the Motif mwm specification in that all window decorations have separate resources.
The resources are documented in the app defaults file for mwm, /etc/X11/app-defaults/Mwm.
COPYING
See the file COPYING which accompanies this distribution of mwm.
AUTHORS
The LessTif project, http://www.lesstif.org/. This manpage was put together by Ray Dassen <jdassen@debian.org>.
SEE ALSO
lesstif(1) X(1), mwmrc(5)
LessTif Project MARCH 2002 MWM(1x)