Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 12/5/18 1:34 PM, james wrote:
> Hello Dan:: lots of good suggestions. you can look in
> /usr/portage/x11/wm (or whereevery /etc/portage/x11-wm for a listing of
> what in the tree for smaller.
> 
> I have been wanting to try lumina::
> 
> https://lumina-desktop.org/features/
> 
> "does not require PolicyKit, HAL or systemd"
> 
> 
> if you have a few/limited scope of codes to run, it might just be
> what you are looking for......
> 
> good_hunting,
> 
> James
> 

I've tried a few now (windowmaker, icewm, fluxbox, and the lumina 
desktop.) I think for my needs fluxbox and eterm are all I need.

That Lumina desktop looks interesting, but I couldn't get it to start on 
my machine. It went through the startup of the desktop, but as soon as 
it showed me the desktop something crashed (I think??) Looking through 
the logs I found this for the Lumina desktop:

qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 1 (BadRequest), sequence: 627, 
resource id: 6291470, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 1

But Google reveals nothing.

So fluxbox it is!

Dan