Lighter file manager/browser/email

[Michael Havens]

rxvt isn't an option because I can't start it without opening a terminal 
(unless there is a 'run' option that I cannot find on the start menu or with 
the 'f' keys).

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 10:41 am, Kenneth wrote:
> I would forget KDE and Gnome if you want lightweight.  icewm seemed to me
> to be a good mix of configurable while not being too hoggy.  As for file
> manager, why use one at all?  There's only very rare occasions when it's
> faster than using CLI commands.
>
> I use rxvt instead of xterm, it seems to be much smaller.  Although a few
> things like man pages that want to use the "real" quotes (I think it's
> Unicode, but never looked into it) don't show up, at least with the version
> of rxvt I have.
>
> --- Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
> > I hate it that I can't really have more than one thing on my deaktop w/o
> > having to wait for at least 15 seconds for something new to load. Kernel
> > 2.6
> > is a memory hog! As  such I think that  I need to be running lighter
> > weight
> >
> > apps than kmail, konqueror, and konsole. I think I know the terminal
> > program
> > to run (which is xterm) but don't know about the file manager/browser.
> > Could
> > you all give me some advise?
> >
> > On a related note: what is 'xterm (unicode)'?
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