On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:38:42PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Nuno, > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are >> not desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java. >> This rules out a lot of text editors. For console, i use nano, for GUI >> i'm using leafpad, any other suggestions? > > I've gone to the extreme with desktop-independence. I use DWM as my > window manager and have it tweaked such that unless I happen to have a > browser or image/movie viewer open it looks just like the Linux console. > The only window decorations is a one pixel wide border to show which > window has focus, which I can toggle off/on. DWM can be completely > controlled via the keyboard. I use the plain Jane console version of vim > even when using it under X in a urxvt window.
if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of customizable tiling layouts. pretty fun(unctional). A
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