Re: Light Window manager

From: Justin Dieters <enderak@mtaonline.net>
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 10:21:05 AKDT

Upon futher investication, I can't really tell if Ratpoison even
supports a mouse. You may want to try Ion
(http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/) instead - it does the full screen
frames thing too, and you can use a mouse.

Justin

Justin Dieters wrote:

>I use Fluxbox (http://www.fluxbox.org) or you can try twm.
>
>I also just stumbled upon Ratpoison (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) -
>it sounds like it might do what you want, but other than that I don't
>know jack about it... Quote: "The screen can be split into
>non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their
>frames to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate."
>
>Justin
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>Anthony Valentine wrote:
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>>Hello everyone!
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>>I am in need of a lightweight window manger. Basically, it only needs
>>to run one window, maximized to fill the screen. It doesn't need
>>anything more, like task bars, or pagers, it just needs to keep that one
>>window open and take up as little cpu and memory as possible.
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>>My only experience with window mangers are the ones running with KDE and
>>Gnome, so I am looking for some recommendations.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Anthony
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