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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.9.1 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: <14510f2f-e417-536c-477f-d03f2e54a097@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 30214f75-1615-4738-a0c7-874566b74c02 X-Archives-Hash: adde82c33ed9f27e985757fddfaf69f5 Daniel Frey wrote: > 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 > > You may want to google to be sure but I think the command can be something like: startx Should be /usr/bin/fluxbox.  That's if you want to start it manually each time.  There are others ways if you want.  I think the only requirement is a working video card driver, nvidia-drivers in my case. Hope you find something you like.  You are right, there are a LOT of them out there.  Dale :-)  :-)