Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: Hi All, I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing environment for application development. What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. If I understand your question, you'd like a window manager that is pretty light but has the ability to do backgrounds and the like. Both rxvt and aterm are lightweight xterms that can show backgrounds as they run--there is also eterm, but it's more resource intensive. As for the window manager itself, I like fluxbox, and it's considered relatively light. There is weewm, which can have a background image--actually, I think most of them can now, using xsetbg. Fluxbox has fbsetbg which will set a background, but does require some other program to do that--some people use feh, xv and xli are two other programs that can work with fbsetbg to set your background. I hope I've understood that aspect of your question. If not, apologies for wasting your time. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCzYqd+lTVdes0Z9YRApO9AJ43TJNzDlkyrOj3A+7TiVevl9W+FACdFVhQ BdnWUecCa8GxxOzbuwFjRlQ= =j3gM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC
Ah, yes... sorry for the poor answering earlier. eterm, aterm and xterm all handle terminal coloring very nicely, with eterm being the most resource hungry of the three terminals listed previously. My apologies for the confusing prior answer. -Garrett On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Scott Robbins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: Hi All, I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing environment for application development. What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. If I understand your question, you'd like a window manager that is pretty light but has the ability to do backgrounds and the like. Both rxvt and aterm are lightweight xterms that can show backgrounds as they run--there is also eterm, but it's more resource intensive. As for the window manager itself, I like fluxbox, and it's considered relatively light. There is weewm, which can have a background image--actually, I think most of them can now, using xsetbg. Fluxbox has fbsetbg which will set a background, but does require some other program to do that--some people use feh, xv and xli are two other programs that can work with fbsetbg to set your background. I hope I've understood that aspect of your question. If not, apologies for wasting your time. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCzYqd+lTVdes0Z9YRApO9AJ43TJNzDlkyrOj3A+7TiVevl9W+FACdFVhQ BdnWUecCa8GxxOzbuwFjRlQ= =j3gM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC
Actually Garrett, Your first answer was quite helpful as well. I am trying to figure out the best way to use X windows, a wm and xterm in a manner that will not slow down performance to a crawl, something that will resemble my development environment on my main machine without a full install or dual boot on this laptop. Will I be able to find everthing I need in the ports collection. On 7/7/05, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, yes... sorry for the poor answering earlier. eterm, aterm and xterm all handle terminal coloring very nicely, with eterm being the most resource hungry of the three terminals listed previously. My apologies for the confusing prior answer. -Garrett On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Scott Robbins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: Hi All, I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing environment for application development. What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. If I understand your question, you'd like a window manager that is pretty light but has the ability to do backgrounds and the like. Both rxvt and aterm are lightweight xterms that can show backgrounds as they run--there is also eterm, but it's more resource intensive. As for the window manager itself, I like fluxbox, and it's considered relatively light. There is weewm, which can have a background image--actually, I think most of them can now, using xsetbg. Fluxbox has fbsetbg which will set a background, but does require some other program to do that--some people use feh, xv and xli are two other programs that can work with fbsetbg to set your background. I hope I've understood that aspect of your question. If not, apologies for wasting your time. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCzYqd+lTVdes0Z9YRApO9AJ43TJNzDlkyrOj3A+7TiVevl9W+FACdFVhQ BdnWUecCa8GxxOzbuwFjRlQ= =j3gM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hakim Singhji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where danger is, grows the saving power also (qtd. in Heidegger 28). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
