Nelson Green <nelsongree...@hotmail.com> writes: > have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so > with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find > my primary use of the GUI is email, the web apps I have to support, and > Guayadeque for my classical music fixes.
You could try fvwm and a recent emacs24 with gnus and tmux (or screen) in rxvt. You might be much happier with a tiling window manager like i3 (they have a nice video on youtube) rather than fvwm, though. > all I really need is dual monitors so I can update things in Terminal and > refresh the page in the web browser, and a locking screen saver, for which > xscreensaver works just fine. In fact I wouldn't mind just having TTY1 on > one monitor and the GUI on the other if that is possible. Xscreensaver is fine. You can have two different displays for X sessions (one on each monitor) rather than having one display that goes across both monitors. I haven't tried to have one X display on one monitor and the console on the other --- that should be somehow possible ... -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gs0yr94....@yun.yagibdah.de
