Re: [SLUG] Re: fast window managers

From: Brian Coyle (brianc@magicnet.net)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 21:59:22 EST


Justin Keyes wrote:
>
> Well, ok.... :P
>
> In the meantime I'll try blackbox.... hopefully, after that, I won't
> have to worry about which window manager is the best, and I can settle
> on one.... because right now my .bashrc file has about ten
> commented-out windowmanager definitions.

Well, I hope you stand one more, since I'm jumping in late here... :)

lwm -- Lightweight Window Manager.

[from the intro ]
     lwm is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face.
     There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus,
     no nothing: if you want all that, then other programs can provide
     it. There's no configurability either: if you want that, you want a
     different window manager; one that helps your operating system in
     its evil conquest of your disc space and its annexation of your
     physical memory.

     That paragraph has probably told you whether or not you're the sort
     of person who can cope with lwm. Welcome to my world!

And how's this for lightweight?

$ ls -l lwm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian brian 27096 Jul 11 00:06 lwm
                                    ~~~~~~~

Read more (especially about mouse buttons) and get it here:

        http://www.boognish.org.uk/enh/lwm/

And to save your .bashrc comments, here's a trick for starting
a window manager on <Ctrl+ALT+F8> so you can play all you want
while you still have your standard WM running on <Ctrl+ALT+F7>

        #!/bin/bash
        xinit /usr/local/bin/lwm -- :1 &
        xsetroot -display :1 -solid blue &

ENJOY!

-- 
'If everyone climbs Mt. Everest because it's hard to do, why do they
go up the easy side?' -- George Carlin



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