[ltp] Lightening Debian

[cr]

I've just installed Debian Sarge on my  Thinkpad i1200 (550MHz, 64MB RAM) and 
it's very overloaded in X with Metacity as the default window manager, it 
just about grinds to a halt.   I'd hoped it wouldn't, since Debian Woody 
(with Sawfish as default window manager) runs quite happily, even apps like 
Opera, Quanta, Gimp etc without a trace of sluggishness.   

I've killed (renamed)  gdm so I now have a command line login, so I can 
fiddle around and break things with ease and convenience   :)

Two ideas occur to me:

1.  Load a lighter window manager.   Fluxbox (IIRC) is available on the CD's, 
and I've downloaded Windowmaker and Xfce from debian.org.   

But should I just change   X-window-manager  and leave  X-session-manager  
pointing to Gnome?

2.   Kill a few daemons.   Desktop-Linux.net suggests doing that, but the 
apps it mentions (Ksysv and Gnome-system-tools) are of course GUI-based, and 
the other one, chkconfig, is apparently rpm-based.     Are there any non-X  
debian equivalents?   

Am I heading in the right direction here?    Or am I missing something? (very 
probable :)      Any comments welcomed.

cr