Thu, 05 Jan 2006
XFree86 FAQ
X used to scare me. I remember how cool it was to read Mac World or some stupid
PC magazine and feel all smart about how to do GUI tricks when I was using
commmercial OSes. Switching to Linux and using X felt all old skool and
entirely uncool without some bloatware like Gnome or KDE installed. Well, well,
I was wrong. X can do crazy shit with nothing more than a tiny window manager
and some
good
reference. See you later lame GUI!
BTW, my current GUI tower of power is fluxbox + mrxvt + fbpager. I adjusted the
~/.fluxbox/keys file to open apps and emulate some Gnome shortcuts I got
accoustomed to. The whole window manager installation (not including X) is
around a meg and runs fine on a Pentium II.
posted at: 15:52 | path:
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