On 9/7/05, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen a lot of people talking about that this ratpoison window > manager, but I haven't been able to find a RPM for a new install, can > anyone point me in the right direction.
start at http://freshmeat.net ... building ratpoison from source is probably *easier* than learning to use it, anyway. :) > If so what is the recommended Window Manager of choice. Previously I > have used KDE, TWM, and WindowMaker. I just want some so I can try to > get lirc mouse working. Most new Linux users would be very uncomfortable without KDE or GNOME The lightest weight window manager possible for MythTV would be to actually run mythfrontend as your windowmanager. Few people are that hardcore. (and mythfrontend coredumps too often for me to want to consider that) Skilled linux users or people with mythtv hardware that doesn't have gigahertz and gigabytes of RAM to spare probably want to run a lighter weight window manager on dedicated mythtv hardware. Aside from resource hogging, and whether or not a given WM is actively being developed or maintained, there are no bad choices - Windowmanagers are completely about personal preference. Go here: http://xwinman.org/ I've tried them all and then some over the years. My preference are: blackbox/fluxbox - good lightweight kde/gnome alternative that is rather friendly and still provides a lot of features icewm - if you like Windows, you'll like icewm fvwm2 - sort of an old faithful. Not very easy to configure. Works for me (tm) twm or mwm - on nearly every UNIX/Linux OS, very lightweight, known suckage quantity Good luck and... as the SuSE distros say... Have fun! -Ross _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
