[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread James
Shoka shoka at gmx.ch writes: I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I need is - X11 and a Window Manager - Mozilla Firefox - Lighttpd If I were you, I'd pose this question over at embedded-gentoo, if you really want to get serious about minimization.

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-30, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I need is - X11 and a Window Manager - Mozilla Firefox - Lighttpd I use Gnome at this time. Gnome?!?! That's like saying all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I bought

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Shoka
On 30.06.2010 17:03, Grant Edwards wrote: Gnome?!?! That's like saying all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I bought the Queen Mary. One step towards smaller/lighter would be the XFCE desktop instead of Gnome. While a lot smaller/faster than Gnuome, XFCE is still far from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:03:27 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Gnome?!?! That's like saying all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I bought the Queen Mary. PMSL :) -- Neil Bothwick All things in moderation, ESPECIALLY moderation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 08:03 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-06-30, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I need is - X11 and a Window Manager - Mozilla Firefox - Lighttpd I use Gnome at this time. Gnome?!?! That's like saying all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:17:00 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the ones with the power, but that's far from light. I really like LXDE now, I use it on my netbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 09:20 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:17:00 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the ones with the power, but that's far from light.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 16:01:21 James wrote: caveat emptor... That's not a very helpful comment on this list, where we all try to help one another. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.