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On 06/30/2010 08:03 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2010-06-30, Shoka <shoka@×××.ch> wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I |
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>> need is |
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>> - X11 and a Window Manager |
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>> - Mozilla Firefox |
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>> - Lighttpd |
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>> I use Gnome at this time. |
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> Gnome?!?! |
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> That's like saying "all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I |
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> bought the Queen Mary". |
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> One step towards smaller/lighter would be the XFCE desktop instead of |
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> Gnome. While a lot smaller/faster than Gnuome, XFCE is still far from |
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> "minimal". |
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> If you want more minimal, then I'd try icewm, fvwm, or blackbox/fluxbox. |
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I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On |
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my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the |
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ones with the power, but that's far from "light". |
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But my personal "light" window manager fave of all time is ratpoison. |
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That's what goes on the servers.... |
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