On Dec 21 2004, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > 20.12 2004 r., on 09:33 Mike wrote: > > Fluxbox, google it and there should be plenty of info > > Right, I also recommend fluxbox.
Let me also add my voice to the choir regarding fluxbox. It's the window manager that I've been using for a long time. I used to use Window Maker, but since the dock applications were there wasting precious space when I was typing something on a low resolution display or browsing the web, I tried to find something that still allowed me to use some of the dock applications that I liked (like wmifs, wmmixer and wmmon) and that allowed them to be hidden when I didn't want them in the way. Fluxbox was the answer for those problems and, just as an extra feature, it uses low resources by today's standards. It also has some nice features like the ability of putting many windows "merged" into one window, with the title bar divided with the titles of all the windows merged. A good space saver (and also a good way of organizing the space that I have). I would also recommend the use of rxvt or, perhaps, rxvt-unicode, but I still haven't got rxvt-unicode to work the way I want. Besides being able to display Unicode, rxvt-unicode has one nice feature for saving memory: it can run as a daemon and, whenever you need another window, you call a client that requests a new window that is managed by the daemon. It seems to work well. It is available in 3 versions, rxvt-unicode-lite, rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml, the latter having many things compiled in. I would like to use rxvt-unicode-lite, but it seems that it doesn't have a scrollbar (like rxvt-unicode has). This is too much of a limitation, for my purposes. If you were *really* tight on memory, you could try using xvt. > I used it on similar machine P166 MHz with 64 MB RAM. It also run > Firefox or Epiphany or Dillo as a web browser, mutt was my email client Mutt is my e-mail client. In fact, it would be my e-mail client even if I had the fastest of the machines, with plenty of RAM. Mutt is incredibly flexible and I have not tried many of the graphical MUAs, but those that I tried left me wondering if there would be a "Graphical Mutt" sometime in the future (well, perhaps there is already one, but I don't know). BTW, the fastest computer to which I have access is a Duron 600MHz with 256MB of RAM and I can't use applications too big, if I want to be productive. :-( Regarding browsers, I think that Firefox may be a bit slow on a machine with about 64MB of RAM, but if it is acceptable or not depends on subjective factors. > and gnumeric/abiword/LyX was my office apps. Gnumeric is indeed quite a good spreadsheet. For text-processing, I use Emacs (with AUCTeX) and teTeX, since I need a lot of mathematics for my work. Cheers, Rogério Brito -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
