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On 12/1/18 8:38 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> It's been a while but last I used Fluxbox, it was tiny. If you just do |
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> a basic install, it isn't much to it. Of course, it isn't feature rich |
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> either but it should run well on a low powered machine or consume very |
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> little resources on a bigger system. I've got two fluxbox packages |
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> installed here. Here is some info on them. |
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> root@fireball / # equery s x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod x11-wm/fluxbox |
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> * x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128-r1 |
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> Total files : 1539 |
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> Total size : 4.22 MiB |
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> * x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.7-r3 |
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> Total files : 339 |
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> Total size : 3.89 MiB |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> I'm not sure the top one is needed. I think I installed it so I could |
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> tweak a few things. At one point, I thought about switching, back when |
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> KDE was a disaster. |
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> I'm sure others will have ideas but you may want to check into Fluxbos. |
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> Install time is pretty short. If you don't like it, just unmerge it. I |
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> keep it installed here just in case a KDE update goes sideways. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Thanks Dale! |
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After the new stable 4.14.x kernel finishes compiling I think I'll give |
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that a try. I completely forgot about fluxbox. The one I was thinking |
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about was maybe enlightenment, but there are likely many of these things |
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out there. |
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On that machine I don't even boot to a login manager of any sort. So |
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keeping things simple is great. |
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Dan |
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