On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Kenno Han wrote: > It is hard looking for FB-based window manager. I do have some sugestion on > an alternative. Are you comfortable with curses-based?
Always interested in suggestions and recommendations. I happen to like curses based applications. I've been looking into some of the lighter-weight window managers. At the moment, I really like jwm. That has very few X dependencies and I read that there was a port of some version of it that worked on nano-x without X. I've also done some research on ways to run multiple apps outside of X Windows. There are options like screen, dvtm, twin and tmux. Haven't found one where I'm comfortable with the key-mappings yet and I didn't notice any that had options to customize key-mappings. Thought this thread on the topic looked interesting: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/21216/the-great-directfb-thread/ There's also some directfb support for X applications with XDirectFb: http://directfb.org/index.php?path=Projects%2FXDirectFB There's some information at the Arch wiki on framebuffer projects at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbpad I do a lot of work straight from the command line and typically don't even go into X unless I want to multitask or run an X based application. So I a window manager isn't an essential to me for getting tasks done (although it can be very convenient). One thing I'd really love to find is a decent programming editor. I realize that's an incredibly subjective subject. What I want most in a programming editor is to be able to map the commands to any keys I want. The second thing I want is to be able to shell out, run other applications and bring back the results to work with (such as jumping to error message lines in files after compiling). I currently use SciTE, but I'd like to find something a lot more lightweight. I do like nano and pico, but I find them kind of restrictive. I've never been able to get used to emacs and I tried very hard to customize vim, but it takes me a month to write a customization that I can do in a day with SciTE. I recently looked at FXiTe, but it's missing some of the functionality I like in SciTE. It loads faster than SciTE, but both require X Windows. If anyone knows of a lightweight programming editor with really good keymapping support, I'd very much like to hear about it. If anyone has any other tips on lightweight X alternatives or building a lighter version of X, hope you'll share them. Thanks. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp/osrclist.htm -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
