I'm a bit late, but I feel sympathetic to your desire to move away
from GUI-bloat! ;)
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> [I use suse7.1 but am slowly getting sick of the enourmous bunch of
> window stuff installed/loaded and getting rid of it seems
> impossible, so i wonder if i should continue with suse anyway. Are
> the otherw linux's leaner?]
I'm also a user who prefers lean, responsive software. A lot of linux
distributions come with KDE or GNOME configured to run, but you don't
have to use them.
Siep mentioned icewm. That's the window manager I use, because it's
light and has excellent keyboard support (you don't have to reach for
the mouse all the time). The default keyboard commands are
reminiscent of Windows keyboard shortcuts.
After a fresh install I configure the system *not* to boot into X, and
then I create a ".xinitrc" file in my home directory, along with a
".xsession" file in case I ever do start using xdm or some other
X-Windows-based login utility.
In the .xinitrc file, I have these lines:
xset s off
exec ssh-agent icewm
The first line turns off the default X screen saver and the second
tells the "ssh-agent" tool to invoke the icewm window manager. I use
the ssh-agent to handle ssh keys -- it's a convenient way to have to
type my password only once and still access many machines in a secure
way.
"exec" means that if someone kills X, they won't get my shell prompt.
If you're not interested in ssh-agent, this will work:
exec ssh-agent icewm
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