[TriLUG] Lightweight X Desktop

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Mon Nov 24 17:53:57 EST 2008


On Monday 24 November 2008 03:31:28 pm Roy Vestal wrote:
> I'm building a system that needs a simple lightweight desktop. I have
> twm but it's not doing what i need. I'd like to get suggestions from
> folks that use them.
>
> **Please, no flame war**

I use IceWM, but everyone's given a bunch of wonderful suggestions.

I have one additional suggestion:

Whichever you use, use UMENU also. I once made a chess game appliance running 
X with no desktop, and launching UMENU on the one xterm that plain old X 
launches.

UMENU: http://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/

HTH

SteveT

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