begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:31:57PM -0800: > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > >On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:42 PM, SJS wrote: > > > >>It would be more interesting to have "Life without KDE or Gnome". > > > >We don't need no steenkin' weendow manachers! > > > >hardcore .xinitrc: > > > >----- > >exec xterm > >----- > > > >proper use of the -geometry argument will get you a long way. > > I am totally unaware of what you allude to. Could you elaborate a > little? I'm not asking for anything complex. Just a general idea.
Well, -geometry is a standard X11 application argument that lets you size and place the application's window. This means you can live without a window manager in (at least) two ways: (1) start up the applications you'll need and tile the display by sizing and positioning them _just_ so. (2) run just an xterm, and whenever you run an application, use the -geometry argument to place and size the application's window. -- I figure if you're really, truly, absolutely beyond a doubt, hardcore, You'd run just one xterm, maximized, like what a console is for. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
