From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 20:03:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1A5C816A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:03:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from mail.starlofashions.com (mail.starlofashions.com [12.44.50.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9348843D48 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:03:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from nyserve3.starlofashions.com ([192.0.0.230]) by mail.starlofashions.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20129; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:03:41 -0400 Received: from uws1.starlofashions.com (uws1.starlofashions.com [192.168.8.230]) by nyserve3.starlofashions.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 58B8F60DB; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:03:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by uws1.starlofashions.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:03:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:03:41 -0400 From: Scott Robbins To: talk@lists.nycbug.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050707200341.GA27985@uws1.starlofashions.com> Mail-Followup-To: talk@lists.nycbug.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng devel (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:03:51 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: > Hi All, > > I am going to install FreeBSD 5.4 on MS Virtual PC. My PC (IBM > Thinkpad R51) only has 256MB of RAM available. I do not want to > install Gnome or KDE however I would like the benefits of colors in > text editors, backgrounds, etc. as this is going to be a testing > environment for application development. > > What is the best way to go about doing this? In VPC I allot > approximately 96MB of RAM for the Virtual Machine and I was thinking > 256MB for virtual SWAP (would that even help... the default is like > 166MB for 96MB of RAM... or something like that. If I understand your question, you'd like a window manager that is pretty light but has the ability to do backgrounds and the like. Both rxvt and aterm are lightweight xterms that can show backgrounds as they run--there is also eterm, but it's more resource intensive. As for the window manager itself, I like fluxbox, and it's considered relatively light. There is weewm, which can have a background image--actually, I think most of them can now, using xsetbg. Fluxbox has fbsetbg which will set a background, but does require some other program to do that--some people use feh, xv and xli are two other programs that can work with fbsetbg to set your background. I hope I've understood that aspect of your question. If not, apologies for wasting your time. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCzYqd+lTVdes0Z9YRApO9AJ43TJNzDlkyrOj3A+7TiVevl9W+FACdFVhQ BdnWUecCa8GxxOzbuwFjRlQ= =j3gM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----