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Titeuf
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 Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:48 am Post subject: Which WM is this ? |
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What's the name of the wm you have, when you start x and haven't installed any other wm's yet.
It starts with 3 xterms and each window has a ugly green border. |
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tad
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| That would be twm, the default WM that ships with X. I personally can't stand the thing, makes me think of my dad's Sun box from the 80s. |
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Titeuf
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| Tnx, It's really ugly, but I'm still emerging kde, so I don't have any other wm's. |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:22 am Post subject: |
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I always first merge some lightweigt wm before merging anything else, that way you can still work in a decent environment while the rest gets compiled.
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Naib
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | | I always first merge some lightweigt wm before merging anything else, that way you can still work in a decent environment while the rest gets compiled. |
na slows everything down. I just leave things like
#emerge xorg-11 gnome
to just before going to bed and it is done in the morning |
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: |
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| Naib wrote: | | theBlackDragon wrote: | | I always first merge some lightweigt wm before merging anything else, that way you can still work in a decent environment while the rest gets compiled. |
na slows everything down. I just leave things like
#emerge xorg-11 gnome
to just before going to bed and it is done in the morning |
It doesn't take me that long te compile xorg 
| Quote: | Thu Jul 29 17:44:20 2004 >>> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2
merge time: 1 hour, 18 minutes and 38 seconds. |
And that way I can already start working without having to wait for firefox and other stuff to compile...
If you use a lightweight wm (WindowMaker comes to mind as it has very minimal dependencies) it doesn't slow your merging down very much, unless you're installing on a _very_ slow system...
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selj
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I like blackbox while waiting for other stuff. Though I havent really tried many other things
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Titeuf
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | | I always first merge some lightweigt wm before merging anything else, that way you can still work in a decent environment while the rest gets compiled. |
Nah, links worked fine in a terminal without framebuffer  |
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svyatogor
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | | I always first merge some lightweigt wm before merging anything else, that way you can still work in a decent environment while the rest gets compiled. |
Me too. The only difference is that lighweight wm (i.e. fluxbox) is where I stop  |
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Stu L Tissimus
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Blackbox is a great lightweight WM with no dependencies besides X11 (AFAIK). Of course, it's been dead for a while, so you can install something like Fluxbox or Kahakai if you don't mind compiling some other things (IMLib2 comes to mind).
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theBlackDragon
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| svyatogor wrote: | | theBlackDragon wrote: | | I always first merge some lightweigt wm before merging anything else, that way you can still work in a decent environment while the rest gets compiled. |
Me too. The only difference is that lighweight wm (i.e. fluxbox) is where I stop |
Well, me too, in a way, I first emerge windowmaker and afterwards I emerge fvwm2, which takes longer because I use about every use flag on it that it supports...
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