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From: Andrew Sackville-West on 18 Jun 2008 15:20
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:38:42PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> Nuno,
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
>
>> The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are
>> not desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java.
>> This rules out a lot of text editors. For console, i use nano, for GUI
>> i'm using leafpad, any other suggestions?
>
> I've gone to the extreme with desktop-independence. I use DWM as my
> window manager and have it tweaked such that unless I happen to have a
> browser or image/movie viewer open it looks just like the Linux console.
> The only window decorations is a one pixel wide border to show which
> window has focus, which I can toggle off/on. DWM can be completely
> controlled via the keyboard. I use the plain Jane console version of vim
> even when using it under X in a urxvt window.

if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at
xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of
customizable tiling layouts. pretty fun(unctional).


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