Steve Litt:
...
> In preparation for the meeting, please see the following very short list
> of window managers and desktop environments (WMDEs) sorted by RAM usage:
>
> https://l3net.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/cmp-all4.png
>
> If you want a deeper dive, see
> http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm .

You know, you don't need any wm, you can run on bare metal X.
Just use an .xinitrc file with xterm as the sole line.
>From xterm you can start up things placing them with libXt style
-g options, at least for thoose programs that still accept them.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar