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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:27:02
Message-Id: 4C2B703D.5000009@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X by Neil Bothwick
1 On 06/30/2010 09:20 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:17:00 -0700, Bill Longman wrote:
3 >
4 >> I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On
5 >> my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the
6 >> ones with the power, but that's far from "light".
7 >
8 > I really like LXDE now, I use it on my netbook.
9 >
10 >> But my personal "light" window manager fave of all time is ratpoison.
11 >> That's what goes on the servers....
12 >
13 > The best WM for a server is screen :)
14
15 LOL!
16
17 Before I pressed "SEND," I was going to add to my sentence, "because it
18 works great with screen".
19
20 Screen and units get installed on all my machines. If you like a "light"
21 system and can do most of your work in links, who needs X?