Hi, On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:54:20PM -0700, Ross Patterson wrote: > Do you want auto-mount of USB drives?
I use pmount for that. It's not automatically, but automatised: The user just says "pmount /dev/whatever" and /dev/whatever gets mounted to /media/whatever. > How about NetworkManager? You don't need bloaty NM. There's wicd which has a GTK, Curses and CLI interface. > If you want to use it, are you content with nmcli? Huh? There's now a CLI interface for NM other than cnetworkmanager? > What about various apps that depend on a system/notification tray? There are lightweight panels, too: lxpanel, fspanel, trayer, tint2, etc., and the text-mode panels without tray: dzen2 and xmobar. > Skype? Dropbox? At least I don't need either of these non-free programs highly depending on the vitality of the compnay behind them. scp and an appropriate server with Apache being installed is my favourite dropbox alternative. ;-) > All this is to say, you might not want as minimal a system as at > first you think you do. Sure, but there are tons of alternatives in the OSS world, especially if there are well-known bloaty open-source projects for some use-case. :-) My more or less lightweight ratpoison/awesome setup is available at https://github.com/xtaran/ratpoison-desktop with a list of software it incorporates towards the end of the start page (i.e. the README file). Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | a...@noone.org (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web) _______________________________________________ Ratpoison-devel mailing list Ratpoison-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ratpoison-devel
