On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:50 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. > <snip>
I've not used the others much at all simply because I've found screen able to do all I've needed and then some, and key bindings are easily changed around to your liking [1]. I'm also rather fond of ratpoison as a WM on lower resource systems (mostly because, once I was used to screen, it was the logical next step when going to X), xmodmap to let me set rp's escape key to the windows key, xbindkeys, rxvt with screen picking up my session directly from the terminal where I started X... and outside of a browser, I almost never have to use the touchpad on my netbook. Since my netbook's more screen and harddrive starved than it is ram and cpu starved, I've not toyed with trying to pull together a kdrive X build since the old monolithic style X. [1] http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/screen-3.9.4/html_chapter/screen_14.html -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
