Re: Light Window manager

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

I will take a look at each one, starting with James suggestion of not
using a window manager. I hadn't even thought of doing it that way!

I'll let you know what I end up doing.

Thanks again!

Anthony

James wrote:
> f you are just trying to run one program, full screen, then you don't
> even need a windowmanager... you just start the X server (i.e. 'X',
> not 'startx') and then spawn your program, possibly passing it
> geometry options to maximize it.
>
> the easiest way would be to modify/create an .xinitrc file to just
> spawn your program
>
> an example .xinitrc is here:
> http://www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/oldXC/subsection3_9_3.html
>
> On 7/19/05, Anthony Valentine <amv@akvalentine.com> wrote:
>
>>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.
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>>Thanks!
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>>Anthony
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