Daniel Frey wrote: > I've been trying to clean up my machines (pruning world file, etc) and > am making progress. > > I ran into one issue, that being on my server (mythtv, file, etc) I am > normally in text/ssh mode but occasionally I need X for something. > > Does anyone have suggestions for a small-footprint window manager (I > have no need for a full desktop environment) as twm is just fugly and > sometimes not intuitive. I also don't need a file manager as I use > Midnight Commander which works well for my needs. This all stems from > occasionally needing a gui for configuring mythtv or the ability to > have two shells open side by side. > > I am thinking others have most likely had this problem at some point > and have found something that's lightweight for this type of purpose. > > Dan > >
It's been a while but last I used Fluxbox, it was tiny. If you just do a basic install, it isn't much to it. Of course, it isn't feature rich either but it should run well on a low powered machine or consume very little resources on a bigger system. I've got two fluxbox packages installed here. Here is some info on them. root@fireball / # equery s x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod x11-wm/fluxbox * x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128-r1 Total files : 1539 Total size : 4.22 MiB * x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.7-r3 Total files : 339 Total size : 3.89 MiB root@fireball / # I'm not sure the top one is needed. I think I installed it so I could tweak a few things. At one point, I thought about switching, back when KDE was a disaster. I'm sure others will have ideas but you may want to check into Fluxbos. Install time is pretty short. If you don't like it, just unmerge it. I keep it installed here just in case a KDE update goes sideways. Dale :-) :-)
