On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Travis Osterman wrote: > > > I've been using Myth on my dedicated fc1 box for roughly one year now > > and have only wonderful things to say. During the holidays I am > > planning on performing some hardware upgrades to my system and am will > > be installing gentoo on my Myth box. I haven't ventured far in the > > relm of window managers (I prefer gnome myself) so I was looking for a > > recommendation on a lightweight wm that would offer a slight increase > > in performance from KDE. > > > > I've seen blackbox and fvwm mentioned in the mythtv.org howto and > > would appreciate any more information whether one is preferrable or if > > there are other undocumented alternatives. Thank you all for a > > wonderful project and community. > > > > -- Travis > > > Mine is more or less a "settup box," so I don't have a mouse > connected to it. I've found that ratpoision is pretty good to keep things > lightweight while still being able to get at a terminal or run other > things at the same time. If you know how to use 'screen' from the > console, 'ratpoison' works the same way (ctrl-t, [0123] to switch between > window [0123], etc). It automatically fullscreens everything and puts > focus on the top one. > > -Cory >
WMI is another good choice. It is designed to be used without a mouse, although a mouse can be used. For example, To create a new xterm: alt-i xt To quit: atl-i q The reason I use it over ratpoison, is that it handles xrandr correctly. http://wmi.modprobe.de/ John
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