On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:45:41PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> >Unix, Windows, Mac, OpenVMS, etc. Client-server -- though the
> >nomenclature is backwards from the usual meaning, your display is a
> >"server", and app
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>Unix, Windows, Mac, OpenVMS, etc. Client-server -- though the
>nomenclature is backwards from the usual meaning, your display is a
>"server", and applications are "clients", running on it. You'll
>hear people
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:50:21AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote:
> can somebody please explain the relationship between desktop,
> window-manager, filemanager, X etc? i jus' don' get it.
Since no one's tackled this...
Reversing orders:
- The X Window System (the full and proper name), aka X or X
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:10:42AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote:
> so is there a full-on desktop that's pretty tiny?
> if i want to know what time/day it is i can look at the clock on my wall etc
I've tried a few different ones, and here's what I've found.
KDE - resource hog
FVWM95 - not bad, bas
Hi,
Dominic Blythe writes:
> so is there a full-on desktop that's pretty tiny?
> if i want to know what time/day it is i can look at the clock on my
> wall etc
Maybe take a look at xfce (www.xfce.org). I am not sure what you mean
by "tiny". If memory usage is a concern, you are probably better
Dominic Blythe writes:
> thanks very much stephan - that clears it up a bit.
>
> so i could survive with, for instance X + sawmill + midnight commander, but
> then I wouldn't necessarily have all the handy taskbar/configuration
> utilities?
sort of :-)
Since neither KDE nor GNOME are mopnolithic
so is there a full-on desktop that's pretty tiny?
if i want to know what time/day it is i can look at the clock on my wall etc
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephan Engelke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 19 May 2000 10:06
> To: Dominic Blythe
> Subject: Re:
can somebody please explain the relationship between desktop,
window-manager, filemanager, X etc? i jus' don' get it.
i want to cut down the amount of resource my given to gui, people keep
saying sawmill is small, enlightenment is this, kde is that,
but i don't know what all the bits are.
cheer
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