Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:17:23 -0400 From: Hakim Singhji <hzs202@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Minimum Install w/ X11 on Virtual PC Message-ID: <c13c36a405070713174276f965@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.61b.0507071307170.126156@dante68.u.washington.edu> References: <c13c36a405070711401b5897ce@mail.gmail.com> <20050707200341.GA27985@uws1.starlofashions.com> <Pine.A41.4.61b.0507071307170.126156@dante68.u.washington.edu>
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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 <youshi10@u.washington.edu> 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).
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