Then I suggest you try "TWIN" On Oct 2, 2012 5:19 AM, "LM" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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