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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2003 13:05:27 +1200
From:      Richard Mahoney <rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
To:        stan <stanb@panix.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recomendation for a lightweigth window manager
Message-ID:  <20030521010527.GE95953@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20030520223010.GA5974@teddy.fas.com>
References:  <20030520223010.GA5974@teddy.fas.com>

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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 06:30:10PM -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?

Certainly consider PWM :

 http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/

For some screen shots see my site :

 http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/zs_text/zs_text.html &c.


Best regards,

 Richard Mahoney


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