On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:16:09PM -0500, dircha wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > >>>Fluxbox > >>>Desktop 1 w/ 4 gnome terminals & Gbuffy. > >>>Desktop 2 w/ Firefox full screen. > > Since you've given us all a look at your workspace, I'll make a few > friendly recommendations. Maybe others have ideas as well. > > If you don't use anything like Gaim or GIMP, you might consider > switching to ratpoison or ionII. The space between windows is really a > waste. > > Of if you do, or just prefer something more conventional, if fluxbox > allows you to you might disable the bottom toolbar and window tabs. > Together these waste a considerable amount of valuable screen real > estate. Also, I would disable window decorations altogether for the > maximized firefox window. > > Or if fluxbox doesn't allow you to, you might consider switching to > openbox (3.2 is in unstable). I think you'll find it has all of the > features of fluxbox, without the ugly toolbar artifact from blackbox, > and without the window tabs. It has changed a lot since 2.x. > > I frequently like to have several of my virtual desktops contain nothing > but a maximized, undecorated xterm (with large font, for my straining > eyes). > > And that brings up a second point. Why gnome-terminal? It's really a > terrible waste of memory and processor resources, and from what I can > see does nothing to justify its existence beyond integration with the > full GNOME environment. Check top while you have output scrolling in one > of the gnome-terminals. I think you'll be surprised. >
I don't know if he is using it, but the advantage of gnome terminal (although it is much better in multi-gnome terminal) is that you have tab support which gives you several terminals grouped together, although if you don't use it xterm/rxvt are much lighter. And I believe gnome-terminal gives you only partial, if any integration with gnome as it uses its own settings. Its only advantage is that it looks like gnome. > I recommend xterm or rxvt. You can change the font with the -font > option. There are plenty of other useful options such as storing x > number of lines for scrolling, and disabling scrollbars and using the > keyboard/mouse wheel. > > dircha > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
