On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:49:48 -0500 Mike Green wrote: > On Monday 25 July 2005 04:37 pm, Greg Estabrooks spammed: > > > No windowmanager. Why do I need a windowmanager, it is a pvr :) > > > > Because the window manager helps handle which app is in focus. > > Many people not using a window manager run into focus issues. > > > > Even a very small lightweight windowmanager would likely fix your > > problem. > > I understand that to be the case. However, I don't want to run a window > manager just to get mplayer to behave correctly. My previous setup was a > dual 400MHz PII - adding a window manager to the mix added unnecessary > complexity and maintenance. I squeezed it for every ounce of memory and > CPU :)
Yes well I would like to do the same, and agree with your sentiments. However fluxbox is pretty darned light. I also tried evilwm, which is lighter still. however I still had focus issues so I moved "up" to fluxbox. I understand that openbox has a similar heritage to flux, but I am not sure which is lighter. i don't propose to change something that is now working :) I certainly would have thought that most WM's are lighter than two X sessions, but I may be wrong on that. > > Now that I have upgraded, at some point I might add a window manager. > > Regardless, it seems to me that it should work correctly without one. > Requiring a window manager to manage a full screen app seems sloppy. Heck, > someday I would like to get rid of X completely use embedded QT. The > entire X windowing system along with a window manager is overkill for a > single purpose pvr/media box. Agreed, see above. -- Nick Rout
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