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Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:11, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>> I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the
>>> special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on
>>> emacs, but, a
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:11, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the
> > special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on
> > emacs, but, as I said, when I'm writing, I'm in a different mode,
> > and I just c
Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the
> special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on
> emacs, but, as I said, when I'm writing, I'm in a different mode, and I
> just can't remember all the keystroke commands. It's hard to e
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 15:04, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> Several things:
>
> 1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a
> window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish.
My mistake, and thanks for pointing it out. I've been using KDE so long
I got lazy in distinguishing my te
Several things:
1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a
window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish.
2) If Abiword will work, use it. It's nice and usable. I use Emacs and
LaTeX myself, but if you want a WYSIWYG processor, Abiword is fine.
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Leonid Grinberg
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I have been using Blackbox ever since I got into Debian, mostly because it
is so small and fast. I use it with xterms, graphics, word processing and
simulations. It's great for low power beasts. I had a problem with it only
on one machine, where it routinely but spontaneously shut down X, and
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:59 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Can anyone recommend or tell me about what window managers they use on
> low resource systems with good results and what word processors they
> use in that situation?
I've found the Blackbox window manager with the "minimal" style works
re
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not
> as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I
> know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48
> MB of memory an
I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not
as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I
know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48
MB of memory and a 1.4 GB hard drive, which means it does not have many
resources a
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