First, to avoid conflicts, you do not need to remove the various packages from your filesystem. All you need to do is not run them (or in the case of libraries, not run programs that link to them).
In principle, you could run X with no Window Manager, just starting a single xterm when the X server starts. I've never done this myself (I have read about the procedure, in a *very* old book), but perhaps when he sees this message, Lawson will sketch out the details of how he did it.
What I would suggest as a practical solution is for you to run X with one of the lightweight Window Managers ... say blackbox or icewm, or maybe XFce (I've not tried this last one myself) ... and once it starts, use its menu system just to start a single xterm. From there, start the static version of VueScan.
I would recommend that you do this (start the X server) from a console. That is, you log in to a console and run the "startx" script to run the X server, rather than using xdm or one of its cousins. By editing the config files startx (and xinit, which the script runs) loads, you can select your WM and the other items that are available in your pop-up menu.
Although X itself is pretty standard, the setup details are somewhat distribution specific, and you've reported trying so many distros hat I don't know what you are running at the moment. With Debian, for example, one way is to do a standard, minimal install, then disable the init-script link that runs xdm. Then you can configure X in any of the usual ways (the "dpkg --configure" choice works pretty well with X for me) and "startx" will work fine.
One last question ... I took a quick look at the (fairly brief) Linux notes on the VueScan site. From what they write there, VueScan looks like a command-line app, not a GUI app. If I am correct ... is there a reason why you do not want to run this from a console? Why do you need X at all (for this app)?
At , Heimo Claasen wrote:
I try to put it simplistic: If you run X you get just the ("graphcical") screen. What is the absolute bare minimum to get this X screen _with_ some possibility to input a command (e.g., for to run some application program) - in fact, just an Xterm for instance ?An HOW would I set it up / launch it ? (The application program, Vuescan, is statically linked and wouldn't need to access any additional shared libraries thus.) Next step: Which of the major (X window-) window management and GUI- programm packages could be safely revomed from the "system", without putting that "bare bones" X at risk ? (Can the whole load of Gtk/Qt go, for instance ?)
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