-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of
Susan Cragin
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:53 PM
To: Ubuntu New Hampshire LoCo Team
Cc: GNHLUG-discussion
Subject: Re: [NH LoCo] Running linux without Gnome/KDE
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Susan Cragin
susancra...@earthlink.net wrote
ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com
Cc: GNHLUG-discussion gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: RE: [NH LoCo] Running linux without Gnome/KDE
There's also ratpoison (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) and Awesome
(http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/02/installing-awesome-window-manager-o
n-ubuntu-intrepid
I have been using awesome for over a year and it has become my
preferred window manager for X. Some nice things about it: you can
have both tiled and regular windows in the same workspace and a window
can reside in multiple workspaces (or tags) at the same time. It
also comes with a fairly easy to
I want to run without Gnome or KDE, with just a bare-bones windows manager that
can be configured to open up with, say, four terminals running and the ability
to tab between them.
I can get to xterm from the Ubuntu logon. Can I involk, say, Fluxbox from
there, and will it do what I want?
I'm actually tunning fluxbox on Ubuntu (my laptop thrashes a lot when I run
GNOME because it doesn't have a lot of memory). I'm pretty sure I didn't
need to do anything special beyond install the fluxbox package. Then when
you get the GUI logogn screen, click Options down in the bottom left corner
[I originally posted the below to the ubuntu-us-nh list; I didn't
realize the thread started on both lists. So here's a copy for
gnhlug-discuss.]
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net wrote:
I want to run without Gnome or KDE, with just a bare-bones windows
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Also tried fvwm by itself. Didn't like it as much as Fluxbox.
FVWM is my preferred window manager/environment. It's lightweight,
powerful, and hyper-flexible. But out of the box it's not much to
look at; the
