Hello,
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote:
>Would anybody care to make a recommendation?
Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config
is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and stuff.
>The requirements are:
>
> * simple and lightweight
Check. Without big bg-images probably < 5MB even on 64bit including
libs.
> * support for multiple displays[1]
No idea about that. But, from 'man wmaker':
OPTIONS
-display host:display.screen
specify display to use. On multiheaded machines, Window
Maker will automatically manage all screens. If you want
Window Maker to manage only a specific screen, you must
supply the screen number you want to have managed with
the -display command line argument. For example, if you
want Window Maker to manage only screen 1, start it as:
wmaker -display :0.1
Never tried that though.
> * support for multiple virtual desktops on each display (I
> currently run 4 virtual desktops on each of 3 displays)
> * must have focus-follows mouse and must be able disable
> "raise-on-click"
Check, check.
> * some sort of easily modifiable root-window menu that I can use to
> start apps
Check. If I understand right, it's the right-click (configurable) menu
anywhere on the desktop itself. Or use a keyboard combo (easily
configurable), as you use xemacs, that should be no problem. If you
move the menu (or any sub-menu), you can "pull the (sub-)menu off" so
it becomes a window in its own right which stays open until you close
it (while you can open other (sub-)menus or whatnot).
> * some sort of task-bar (auto-hide required)
Just middle-click (configurable) menu anywhere (or use a key-combo)
shows open windows. Autohide is implicit as it's a menu, but again,
it can be pulled off so it'll stay open if you want.
There's also the "App icons" (somewhat like a minified taskbar), I
think they can be disabled in the "Expert User Preferences" of the
config-tool.
> * some sort toolbar OK (as long as it's auto-hide)
I guess that'd be the "Dock"...
The Dock has a "check" for "start when Window Maker is started", so I
guess ... I guess the Icons can be switched off too if you prefer a
panel/toolbar. But no auto-hide.
wmaker has '--no-clip' and '--no-dock' options, so you'd just get the
root-window plus the menus. Adding (auto-hiding) panel-apps / taskbars
should then be no problem.
But I'm not sure what you mean by root-window menu / task-bar /
toolbar.
> * GTK-based strongly preferred -- I typically don't have Qt or any
> KDE stuff installed, and have some custom-written GTK apps on
> which I'm rather dependent.
Just plain X plus a couple smallish own libs:
$ ls -lh /usr/lib64/{libWINGs,libWUtil,libwraster}.so.?.?.?
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 495K Jul 6 04:27 /usr/lib64/libWINGs.so.3.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 144K Jul 6 04:27 /usr/lib64/libWUtil.so.5.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143K Jul 6 04:27 /usr/lib64/libwraster.so.5.0.0
And those libs are unstripped, though that isn't much (439, 124, and
132kB, I just stripped copies in /tmp ;)
> * I don't want a file manager, terminal emulator, or any other
> bundled apps, so it would be nice if they were all optional,
> separate ebuilds
Just the actual window manager, a config-tool and some small helpers
(e.g. wmclip, wmdock, wmsetbg).
>I don't want any storage auto-mounter, network manager, modem manager,
>or any of that sort of thing. Anything with "manager" in the name is
>probably right out.
Neither do I :) As well as most anything with "Kit".
>All I want is something to run urxvt terminals and xemacs windows --
Same here (with (u)xterms ;).
>with maybe an instance of firefox, chrome, or wireshark. I also
>occasionally run libreoffice or xfreerdp, but only under duress.
>
>I don't want any icons or folders or shortcuts or whatnot on the
>desktop.
Then WMaker seems fitting ;)
>I don't even need the ability to use an image as my desktop
>"wallpaper": all I want is a user-configurable sold color.
Easy to configure via the config tool.
>When I'm moving/resizing a window, all I want to see is a wireframe --
>I don't need a window's contents being re-rendered constantly as I
>move or resize it.
Got that. "Window Handling Preferences" -> "Opaque Move" (on/off)
plus "Miscellaneous Ergonomic Preferences" -> "Size
Display"/"Position Display" ...
>No fancy animation or translucency silliness.
You got that. IIRC the default has some frills you'd need to turn off.
But no fear, you need to do that only once, I did that in IIRC 2002 or
so with WMaker 0.65 and never touched that config ever again. I think
there was once some feature renamed or so, but you get that with
xemacs/mutt/tin as well.
So, IMO it's should be worth a look. But _do_ have a look through the
config-tool at the options (like the focus and moving stuff) and
ignore the UI-look, that can be tuned a lot, the default is rather
boring (but functional).
If I read and understood it right, WMaker should fit the bill, with a
bit of configuration and possibly some external apps like a
panel/taskbar/toolbar whatever.
Oh, and BTW: I guess you should enable all useflags except 'modelock'
and maybe 'imagemagick' and 'webp'.
Apart from that: LXDE comes to mind.
HTH,
-dnh
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