From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 15:52:45 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 90C9637B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 15:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D818D43FA3 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 15:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 70885 invoked by uid 1001); 20 May 2003 22:53:47 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 15:53:47 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: stan Message-ID: <20030520225347.GA70742@webserver.get-linux.org> 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/1.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recomendation for a lightweigth window manager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:52:45 -0000 On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 06:30:10PM -0400 or thereabouts, stan seemed to write: > 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@. twm - it's exactly what you're looking for. Installed with base X distrib - no additional packages. But beware: if the user(s) can get some kind of way to run an arbitrary command, they could run xkill and kill off any window :-) HTH, -- Josh > > 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"