On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > I've never tried it myself, but I seem to recall that Lawson Whitney (are > you there, Lawson? acn you comment helpfully?) has in the past run his > xserver "bare metal", without even a basic Window Manager. I don't know how > versatile he found that setup. > At the time the only X application I cared about was Wine, which uses its own builtin window manager if you don't tell it (with the --managed option) not to. A naked xterm looks a little strange, and you can't move it except by killing it and starting another with different geometry from the command line (yes, you can start X applications from a console, as long as the DISPLAY environment variable is set (xinit or g/k/xdm do this for their children, but you can set it in a shell startup file if you like).
I have more memory now, and icewm doesn't take too much. Lawson ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
