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[207.6.89.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v190sm13817886pfv.26.2018.12.01.20.51.59 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:51:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <868a6270-afde-16ec-e125-5281d8a1add4@gmail.com> From: Daniel Frey Message-ID: <14510f2f-e417-536c-477f-d03f2e54a097@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 20:51:59 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <868a6270-afde-16ec-e125-5281d8a1add4@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 935d7d64-7d62-4d99-9906-efa7b2256f67 X-Archives-Hash: 8e3ae84a098cd1349a5e75053488a2d4 On 12/1/18 8:38 PM, Dale wrote: > It's been a while but last I used Fluxbox, it was tiny.  If you just do > a basic install, it isn't much to it.  Of course, it isn't feature rich > either but it should run well on a low powered machine or consume very > little resources on a bigger system.  I've got two fluxbox packages > installed here.  Here is some info on them. > > > root@fireball / # equery s x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod x11-wm/fluxbox >  * x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128-r1 >          Total files : 1539 >          Total size  : 4.22 MiB > >  * x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.7-r3 >          Total files : 339 >          Total size  : 3.89 MiB > root@fireball / # > > > I'm not sure the top one is needed.  I think I installed it so I could > tweak a few things.  At one point, I thought about switching, back when > KDE was a disaster. > > I'm sure others will have ideas but you may want to check into Fluxbos. > Install time is pretty short.  If you don't like it, just unmerge it.  I > keep it installed here just in case a KDE update goes sideways. > > Dale > > :-)  :-) > Thanks Dale! After the new stable 4.14.x kernel finishes compiling I think I'll give that a try. I completely forgot about fluxbox. The one I was thinking about was maybe enlightenment, but there are likely many of these things out there. On that machine I don't even boot to a login manager of any sort. So keeping things simple is great. Dan