On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Sthu Deus <sthu.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good time of the day, Patrick.
>>
>>
>> You worte:
>>
>>> Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited
>>> features OK) for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit.
>>> won't take more. tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--to install
>>> Squeeze on? I'm running Etch and XFCE on it currently. Want to see
>>> if I can install a supported version of Debian with a small window
>>> manager without the bloat of a full size X.
>>>
>>> I really like this notebook for travel--what I got it for originally
>>> before netbooks existed. Great keyboard--I do a lot of typing.
>>> Don't want to put it in a closet to gather dust. Waste not, want
>>> not. ;-)
>>
>> You assuredly can! - I used current Debian w/ LXDE on P-I ! w/ same RAM
>> size as Yours and HDD of 40 GB.
>>
>>
>> Sthu.
>>
>
>
>You can go even further, with no DE (desktop environment) at all.
>Just plain WM (window manager), such as fluxbox (the one I prefer),
>blackbox (the one used by default on LXDE), fvwm2, etc... Some other
>tiling WMs are also available such as xmonad...
That was I was planning: window manager only. I've run some custom install
tests (Base + adding one thing at a time) in VirtualBox, and found that xorg,
plus all the stuff it loads, eats a lot of RAM -- about 100+ MB -- leaving only
about 50MB out of 192 available for applications. That's why I'm looking for a
small X or alternatives. Others have suggested just a framebuffer. For what I
need, that's a viable option.
I thought LXDE used OpenBox for its window manager. Openbox is what I've been
using for my tests.
B
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