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Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past

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On 01/05/14 03:33, Dan.Espen wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.com> writes:
>
>> Dan.Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> Re fvwm2:
>>
>>> Got 2GB in here now.  Way more than I need.
>>
>> I've still got one box with 512meg.  Fvwm2 works just fine on it.  In
>> fact, I run only fvwm2 on all my boxes.
>>
>> I used to have (a few years back) a Thinkpad T22 with only 256meg.
>> Fvwm2 worked great there as well.
>>
>> On the laptop I'm typing this on (only 768meg) top reports Fvwm2's
>> "Virt" size as 5,300kbyte.
>>
>> Resident is only 1,576 kbyte (according to top).
>>
>> Fvwm2 is wonderful for low resource usage and just doing its job and
>> otherwise getting out of your way.
>
> Yep.  One Fvwm2 principle is to keep the non-core stuff in modules.
> If you don't want a button bar or icon box, then don't start
> the module.
>
> One of my goals is to have as little as possible from the WM visible.
> No pager, no launchers.  Just a lot of keystroke customizations.
> For many windows, like Emacs, I dispense with the title bar.
> There's nothing in it that does anything for emacs, so I just leave
> the frame.
>
> I recently had to bump my box from 1G to 2G but it was all Firefox's
> fault.  Well Firefox and I think whatever was handling the videos.
>
> I first used Fvwm2 on a Sparc1+.  Can't remember how much memory.
> I'd guess 256M.
>

All I want from the WM are pretty window frames and a nicely 
customisable panel (yes I realise they don't have to come from the same 
stable).

I like my panel thin, menu, very few favourite icons, a clock and a few 
status icons like Wifi, battery power.

Other than that, nothing - so xfce4 suits me well.


Somehow I think when I saw Windows95, the utility and simplicity of the 
desktop layout stuck. I've hated everything MS ever did after that (so 
use ClassicShell on later WinOSes) and on linux I hate "bubblegum" 
pretty icons and panels and I cannot live without any decent panel - so 
Awesome (which it's not!), RatPoison and *twm are all out for me.


Clearly there is no right answer which is why there are so many desktops 
with Linux (and I presume *BSD).

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Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-18 14:16 +0000
  Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-04-25 00:12 -0300
  Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-25 05:16 +0000
    Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-28 15:14 +0000
      Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-04-28 18:19 +0300
        Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-04-28 16:51 +0000
        Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-04-28 18:23 -0300
        Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-28 17:41 -0700
        Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-29 04:07 +0000
          Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-04-29 07:25 +0300
            Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-04-29 10:15 -0400
              Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-29 17:25 +0000
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-04-29 15:51 -0400
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-04-30 09:30 +0000
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-04-30 10:13 -0400
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-30 20:26 +0000
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-04-30 22:33 -0400
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-01 02:52 +0000
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-05-01 08:06 +0100
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-01 19:44 +0100
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Andreas Karrer <ak-4a@gmx.ch> - 2014-05-01 09:23 +0000
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-01 16:38 +0300
                Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-05-01 12:26 -0400
      Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2014-04-28 15:47 +0000
        Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-04-29 01:10 -0300
      Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-28 16:50 +0000
      Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-29 04:06 +0000
        Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-30 21:19 +0000
          Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-01 19:54 +0100
      Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-04-29 16:44 +0300
  Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-01 21:06 +0000
    Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-05-02 01:49 +0000

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