blackbox

hacktavist at cox.net hacktavist at cox.net
Sun Nov 26 21:14:49 MST 2006


Just checked it out. Looks really cool. I am currently using the standard 
fvwm with OpenBSD 3.9. fvwm ships with most Linux distros that i know of, 
it is light and fast. Not really pretty but, who needs pretty to work 
anyway. ;-)~~

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:20:20PM -0700, Scott wrote:
>> Blackbox is really cool, especially for older systems, due to its
>> extremely light memory footprint.  Fluxbox went a step further to reduce
>> that footprint, making it good for the occasional 486.  I haven't tried
>> it on a 386 (does anyone still have one of those?) but I wouldn't doubt
>> that it would have a preferable performance rate on 'em.  Fluxbox also
>> has a ton of themes.
>
> I've gone a step leaner, and am using ion3. Whenever people see my
> desktop someone will ask me what I'm using. It's lean, it's fast, but
> it's not for most people. If you need to focus, it's righteous. There
> are no themes, but you can change the colors a bit. ;)
>
> -- 
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