Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:56:03 -0400 From: "Vlad D.Markov" <markov@monmouth.com> To: Jalle <defacto@home.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recomendation for a lightweigth window manager Message-ID: <20030520205603.12f13716.markov@monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030521005550.023d0008@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> References: <20030520223010.GA5974@teddy.fas.com> <5.2.1.1.0.20030521005550.023d0008@archimedes.rsn.bth.se>
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As I understand X, the application gets a message to close or delete and that causes it to close. There is a destroy message that will in effect kills the X application. If your users have access to xkill, they can destroy windows. Most Window managers permit you to associate actions with the decorations, menus, and keys. I use fvwm or fvwm2 and it lets me configure all these things. I don't see why you could not configure the window manager to just have the options on the window decoration to minimize/maximize, no key bindings, and a menu that just permits the browser to be launched. TWM and other window managers can also be configured how you want. Until last year I ran an Intel 486. It wasn't the Window manager that was the problem; it was the browser followed closely by XFree86. Anybody remember Chimera? Now that was a nice X browser. On Wed, 21 May 2003 01:08:49 +0200 Jalle <defacto@home.se> wrote: > How about KDE-3.1? Moahaha! > Sorry, bad yolk... but if you want a fast and stable (and standards > compliant) WM I'd personally recommend fluxbox or blackbox. > However, that's very personal, so you should have a look at > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/x11-wm.html > for further tips and inspiration. > > Do you mean that you want the WM to be configured to keep users from > closing the application? > Tough one, it should probably be done from within the application > itself in some way. > > If anyone should have a spot-on match in this case, I'm kinda curious > too, so please reply to the list. > > /Jalle > > > At 18:30 2003-05-20 -0400, stan wrote: > >I'm setting up a machine to sue as a dedicated replacement for an > >alarm printer on a control system. > > > >I was not planing to use a window manager at all, and I actually have > >a rather nice looking X session with no borders working. However, now > >I have a request to add a browser to allow looking at some web based > >stuff. > > > >I want to setup a user interface where the operators can iconify, and > >resize windows, but not close them. The machine in question is only a > >P@. > > > >So what would you recommend for a very lightweight window manager for > >this application? > > > >-- > >"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety > >deserve neither liberty nor safety." > > -- Benjamin Franklin > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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