m.roth at 5-cent.us
2017-Nov-07 16:23 UTC
[CentOS] C6, lightweight window managers - opinions?
Mark Haney wrote:> On 11/07/2017 10:37 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> So, on my old Netbook, now happily running C6.9, I'm looking for >> opinions >> for a lightweight window manager. Gnome surely ain't it.... >> >> Years back, I used to like IceWM, but not sure it's been kept up. >> >> So, opinions? >> > I have an old Gateway netbook that runs XFCE and LWM just fine. It's > Ubuntu, not CentOS however.? Granted it's a recent kernel and a heavier > package size I would think. >I just looked around, and now I see - I'd need to install the epel repo, which I hadn't gotten around to - to get xfce. mark "still prefer a menu on the bottom"--
>> On 11/07/2017 10:37 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> So, on my old Netbook, now happily running C6.9, I'm looking for > opinions for a lightweight window manager. Gnome surely ain't it....I'd've been happy to stay with Gnome if whoever wrote metacity hadn't broken the function-key mappings. I use FVWM on Oracle Linux 6.9: USER RSS STARTED TIME COMMAND vogelke 160 Oct-30 0:00 /usr/local/libexec/fvwm/2.6.7/Fvwm vogelke 4248 Oct-30 0:03 /usr/local/libexec/fvwm/2.6.7/Fvwm vogelke 5728 Oct-03 1:32 fvwm -s Can't get much lighter than that. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Next time it could be me on the scaffolding. --written on blackboard by Bart Simpson
Le 08/11/2017 ? 23:37, Karl Vogel a ?crit?:> Can't get much lighter than that.You can. https://blog.microlinux.fr/x11-centos-7/ :o) Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32