I did something yesterday at work. I pressed control-alt-backspace, and in gdm, I did select "WindowMaker" for my session, and made that the default. Last time I ran WindowMaker was on my old PowerPC box, because I barely had a choice to have it usable with 128MB of RAM (this box is now headless, and no, I can't put more RAM, because I need to find 5V EDO DIMM, and I'm not even sure I have a free slot as I currently have 16 + 16 + 32 + 64 in 4 slots).

At least, music is no longer skipping when VMWare runs with our development code, on the Athlon 2600+ XP, 1GB of RAM.

Maybe I should try xfce :-)

Update: removed the word "nasty" that was a bit inappropriate.