From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 18:05:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B563F37B404 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 18:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mahoney.remote.comnet.co.nz (mahoney.remote.comnet.co.nz [131.203.240.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F3F43F85 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 18:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz) Received: from rbm49 by mahoney.remote.comnet.co.nz with local (Exim 4.20) id 19II2p-0001bE-74; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:05:27 +1200 Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:05:27 +1200 From: Richard Mahoney To: stan Message-ID: <20030521010527.GE95953@ext.canterbury.ac.nz> Mail-Followup-To: stan , Free BSD Questions list References: <20030520223010.GA5974@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030520223010.GA5974@teddy.fas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Recomendation for a lightweigth window manager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Richard Mahoney List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 01:05:42 -0000 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 -- Richard Mahoney | E-mail: rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz 78 Jeffreys Rd | r.mahoney@comnet.net.nz CHRISTCHURCH | Cellular: 0064-25-829-986 NEW ZEALAND | http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney