From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Scottaline Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:40:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20050112044052.2e61aed4@localhost.localdomain> References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> <200501112319.42894.eric@cisu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501112319.42894.eric@cisu.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:19:42 -0600 Eric Bambach insightfully noted: EB>Hi, EB> I would say no. The X server isnt all too bloated if you use a EB> lightweight EB>window manager . Firefox, Openoffice, Xmms all use toolkits that need a EB> EB>backend X server to talk to. What gives you the impressions that X is EB>that bloated? I would say just bite the bullet and search out a simple EB>window manager. Sorry if anything doesn't make sense Im quite tired EB>today, but I hope that answers your question. =================================== Jeremy might consider running ion or ratpoison which basically work like a command line with some keybindings that are very easily configured. Mike -- "The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life" --Muhammad Ali - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs