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> > > On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote:
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> > On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote:
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> > > Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very
> > > happy with x
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> > Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy
> > with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
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> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D
Hello Preston,
what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop
it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was
A properly configured olvwm WM.
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> I found that the litest is icewm. Works great on my P-II-133 with 64 MB
> ram and on my 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. The 486 wouldn't run Etch so
> it runs great with OpenBSD. Woody also runs great on it. Iceweasel
> takes a long time to render.
>
> Doug.
Try DWM. Much lighter than icewm. Als
A properly configured olvwm WM.
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
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> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D
Hello Preston,
what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop
it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What about stumpwm?
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
>
> Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
You could (aptitude search):
p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager
and no I never have.
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:50:35PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Manu Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have a general question which I got when trying out different
> > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker
> > (I wanted to make my computer fast
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
[...]
> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D
Hello Preston,
what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop
it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was
A properly configured olvwm WM.
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Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What about stumpwm?
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
>
> Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
You could (aptitude search):
p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager
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"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have you read /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/README.Debian [3]? It contains
> information about how to start StumpWM.
I tried this too, and I think it takes a great deal for granted. There
is just too much assumed about what you know for this stuff to work,
IM
2007/9/29, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The debian stumpwm package dependency are: sbcl cl-clx-sbcl.
>
> Yeah, and I actually met those, and it may have "worked" except I could
> never get it started as I just didn't know how. It may be because I am
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Patrick!
Howdy,
> No, I have not set it up. :(
> Thank you for help! :)
Glad to be able to do so.
> The debian stumpwm package dependency are: sbcl cl-clx-sbcl.
Yeah, and I actually met those, and it may have "worked" except I could
never get
>
> Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm?
Edit your config.h file. There are mod keys defined for specific programs. Edit
the arguments there.
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Hello Patrick!
2007/9/29, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What about stumpwm?
> >
> > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
> >
> > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
>
> Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it
>
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What about stumpwm?
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
>
> Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it
was kind of hard to get going. You may have already set it up, but just
in
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What about stumpwm?
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
>
> Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
You could (aptitude search):
p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager
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What about stumpwm?
http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:32:43PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Hmm. That seems like it'd be a pain with xterms, since text software often
> doesn't take well to having its window resized. I try to keep my xterms as
> close to 80x24 as possible to minimize problems with things like aptitude.
On 9/28/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote:
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> >
> > Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy
> > with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :)
>
> What
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:21:31PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > its probably got more to do with memory *use* than management. By that
> > I mean, you may end up wasting memory by using kde apps within a
> > different wm. The kde app
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On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote:
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> Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy
> with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :)
What's the benefit of transparency?
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On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> > On 9/27/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have a general question which
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:32:43PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>So, for example, if I'm
>>working in an x-term and I want another one, when it opens, the
>>first one gets resized to half the screen and the new one gets the
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote:
Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm?
You can assign you xterm properties in .Xdefaults:
# fonts
xterm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold
xterm*faceSize: 12
# other options
xterm*geom
2007/9/28, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>So, for example, if I'm
>working in an x-term and I want another one, when it opens, the
>first one gets resized to half the screen and the new one gets the
>other half. O
On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
So, for example, if I'm
working in an x-term and I want another one, when it opens, the
first one gets resized to half the screen and the new one gets the
other half. Open another, and they each get squeezed into 1/3,
etc.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:19:28PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> >
> > thanks. I've become sort of a wmii zealot in the last little
> > while. It's been fun. hope I didn't steal your thunder. :)
>
> Lol no not at all. You should give DWM a try. I think there are improvements
> over wmii. Al
didier gaumet wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
>
> [...]
>> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D
>
> Hello Preston,
>
> what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop
> it seemed to me that the las
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
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> and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D
Hello Preston,
what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop
it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was
A properly configured olvwm WM.
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> thanks. I've become sort of a wmii zealot in the last little
> while. It's been fun. hope I didn't steal your thunder. :)
Lol no not at all. You should give DWM a try. I think there are improvements
over wmii. Also, there is a new fork from dwm called 'awesome' (yeah i know,
apparently the
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:33:06PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> I couldn't have explained it any better. I guess if I get asked, I will
> simply forward your explanation to them ;).
thanks. I've become sort of a wmii zealot in the last little
while. It's been fun. hope I didn't steal your t
I couldn't have explained it any better. I guess if I get asked, I will simply
forward your explanation to them ;).
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On 09/27/2007 03:41 PM, Manu Hack wrote:
I agree. :) But I'm still confused as to why KDE can outperform (at
least up to my experience) a supposedly light weight wm (maybe
windowmaker is not lightweight enough, will try fluxbox later) on the
same machine. Is that because of something like memor
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:25:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 09/27/07 18:58, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> >> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued. It's got a
> >> pleasingly geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something
> >> Xerox PARC might have come up with in the 1970s. ;)
>
>
> With other WMs, you're not focused on the app and task?
>
Its hard for me to explain. I suggest you try it out. Of course, this is just
my opinion and experiences. Just a suggestion.
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On 09/27/07 18:58, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued. It's got a
>> pleasingly geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something
>> Xerox PARC might have come up with in the 1970s. ;)
>>
>
> It is very effi
> I have to say, the screenshot has me intrigued. It's got a
> pleasingly geeky sort of retro text GUI look, like something Xerox
> PARC might have come up with in the 1970s. ;)
>
It is very efficient. Especially tiling modes. I can't use any other
Windowmanager now. I just can't. With DWM,
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different
> > > windows managers/desktop environmen
Javier Vasquez wrote:
>
> Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:
>
> fluxbox
> icewm
> pekwm
> fvwm2
>
> You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of
> fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with
> 512M main, and 64M ati-rage is performing
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On 09/27/07 16:30, David Brodbeck wrote:
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> On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>
>> I understand your frustration.
>>
>> I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS X,
>> GNOME, and KDE hogged to much reso
On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
I understand your frustration.
I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS
X, GNOME, and KDE hogged to much resources. So I started from
scratch and installed a base install of Debian. I then installed
just th
I understand your frustration.
I have an old powerbook laptop (Speed: 500MHz, RAM: 512MB). Mac OS X, GNOME,
and KDE hogged to much resources. So I started from scratch and installed a
base install of Debian. I then installed just the necessary packages and I am
using a very very lightweight win
On 9/27/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a general question which I got when trying out different
> > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker
> > (I wanted to make my computer fa
"Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:
>
> fluxbox
> icewm
> pekwm
> fvwm2
>
> You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of
> fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with
> 512M main, and 64M at
On 9/27/07, Manu Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a general question which I got when trying out different
> windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker
> (I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it
> certainly is fast for initializati
Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a general question which I got when trying out different
> windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker
> (I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it
> certainly is fast for in
Hi all,
I have a general question which I got when trying out different
windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker
(I wanted to make my computer faster as it's getting old), it
certainly is fast for initialization. But after that when around
10-15 windows are opened and
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