[desktop-discuss] Re: lightweight graphics options....

[Garrett D'Amore]

Christian Kelly wrote:
> There's always CDE :)
>   

CDE isn't too bad.  Its certainly much better than gnome in this
particular regard.  But it isn't OpenSource, and my fear is that Sun
plans to do away with it.

> I went through a lean few months in college where I used slackware with blackbox as the window manager and it was great. Its definitely not for everyone, but there are times when its useful - e.g. you only have a couple of weeks to finish a major project, you haven't even started yet and you need as little distraction as possible :)
>   

Blackbox would work, I think.  It certainly is minimalist.   My only
question, not having used it, is does it provide the "normal" window
handling widgets on the top of the window.  It _appears_ to from the
screen shots I've seen.

> rm /usr/bin/firefox 
>   

Yeah, that would be a big help.  Presumably we have to have some
lightweight browser (no idea what we'd use) to help out with managing
because a lot of "sysadmin" tools are web based these days.  (Not that
I'm particularly fond of that approach.)

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