On 12/1/18 8:38 PM, Dale wrote:
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
:-) :-)
Thanks Dale!
After the new stable 4.14.x kernel finishes compiling I think I'll give
that a try. I completely forgot about fluxbox. The one I was thinking
about was maybe enlightenment, but there are likely many of these things
out there.
On that machine I don't even boot to a login manager of any sort. So
keeping things simple is great.
Dan
