On Fri, 23 May 2014 10:08:56 -0400 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2014 12:46:14 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mi, 21 mai 14, 08:58:00, Joe wrote: > > > The other medium-weight DE is LXDE. > > > > If there is an even lighter weight DE than LXDE I'd be very > > interested. > > > > Kind regards, > > Andrei > > Well, I mean, if lightness is your sole priority, drop all the way > back to fvwm2. It would probably run on a 16MB 286. I think you'd > need to run X without a window manager to get lighter than fvwm2. > > As far as practical interfaces for serious desktop work, I wonder if > OpenBox is lighter weight than LXDE? If so, *highly* recommend > OpenBox: It's wonderful. Here's some documentation I wrote about it: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/openbox/index.htm > > SteveT > > Openbox works very well. It's not a complete desktop environment of course, just one component, so you will need to pick and choose the applications to make it a workable environment. Which is actually a good thing because the application that are part of a desktop environment are usually somewhat poor. You can run tint2 to provide replace the taskbar/system tray/desktop pager functionality. feh to set the root window to a nice background image. xfe is a fast and easy to use file manager (not based on Gtk or Qt, and not even on Fltk but on the somewhat unknown Fox toolkit) wmctrl is a very useful tool to use in rc.xml for fast fast switching between applications: For example: <keybind key="W-e"> <action name="Execute"> <command>wmctrl -x -a "emacs.Emacs"</command> </action> </keybind> Switches to the desktop where emacs is running, and focuses the window in one keypress. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140523174244.32f2ea5e@mycroft
