On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion > > and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just > > want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the > > way I interact with my coputer. > > I'm not sure if I've tried Ion before. I've tried many window managers. > Anyway, this post inspired my to try, or retry, Ion and I might have found > my new favorite window manager. After I tweak a few things I think I'm > going to be hooked. The only thing I've found so far that is > disappointing is that my favorite image viewer, xv, does strange things > under Ion. For example, if I start xv to view several images, it displays > the first image stretched or shrunk to completely fill the screen, even > if it smegs up the aspect ratio in the process. Cycling through the other > images, most are displayed at the correct size, but they're displayed on > top of the first image, which stays on the screen. I've seen it exhibit > similar behavior under XFCE. Running it with -nodecor, which removes the > window decorations, under XFCE seems to work around that quirk. It > doesn't help under Ion. I might have to switch to a more modern image > viewer. I've tried qiv a few times, and it seems to work well under Ion. > fvwm can also be configured to be light on both screen an machine resources on my previous laptop I got it to startup with about 20 mb of ram including a running terminal (urxvt). I also configured it to have the titlebar on the side (it was a 14" 1024x768 screen) and a shortcut to remove the titlebar all together. As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use gqview though. > > > Kevin > http://www.RawFedDogs.net > http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org > Bruceville, TX > > Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. > Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
