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