From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 20:17:24 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 BF87416A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:17:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hzs202@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0E443D45 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:17:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hzs202@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i7so299466wra for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:17:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cujUAbPM6CU4jSO900kChxRgz2YSD7UHmbmOEh//TLJoeYBgm8E7uL5SZWGUlsxOHagplL9e1l9oONGrOn5h9U98Wc4Jkci0Dtkks5r1pIPEoupnlGtWa7D3ZtpPv9gD0kZA+9pIfqQLL9ObpNEiST7VEPD4irPl3C+sKwGFmjY= Received: by 10.54.39.42 with SMTP id m42mr986152wrm; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.5 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:17:23 -0400 From: Hakim Singhji To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050707200341.GA27985@uws1.starlofashions.com> Cc: Scott Robbins , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 Reply-To: hzs202@nyu.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:17:25 -0000 Actually Garrett, Your first answer was quite helpful as well. I am trying to figure out the best way to use X windows, a wm and xterm in a manner that will not slow down performance to a crawl, something that will resemble my development environment on my main machine without a full install or dual boot on this laptop. Will I be able to find everthing I need in the ports collection. On 7/7/05, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Ah, yes... sorry for the poor answering earlier. eterm, aterm and > xterm all handle terminal coloring very nicely, with eterm being the most > resource hungry of the three terminals listed previously. > My apologies for the confusing prior answer. > -Garrett >=20 > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Scott Robbins wrote: >=20 > > -----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=3D > > =3Dj3gM > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.o= rg" >=20 --=20 Hakim Singhji hzs202@nyu.edu "Where danger is, grows the saving power also" (qtd. in Heidegger 28).