| Re: Re: unbloating gtk ui
Dec 23 2008 on group No - Desktop !! |
The two processes necessary for compiz together take 10Mb, 7.7 for compiz.real and another 2 for gtk-window-decorator, a necessary accomplice (you can also use emerald to do the same function, decorating the windows.) Not nearly as light as some options, but my 5 year old thinkpad t40 has 1gb of ram, so i don't stress to much that amount. Runs debian sid.
Compiz has numerous plugins, use as many or as few as you need. It is capable of setting keybindings for running arbitrary programs, and for all the standard window manager functions, move, resize, hide, et al. With the compiz-deskmenu plugin, you can create a right-click desktop menu (also bind it to keys), ala black/fluxbox, and others. I duplicate my old oroborus setup, with a blank screen and a mouse cursor at login, and keybindings for an xterm and a run dialog, and not much else. The expo plugin gives a handy (if mac-like) heads up display of all open windows, it's actually why I use compiz.
Dunno about tabbing and tiling, never really got into that. . . always found such managers made it hard for me to set an arbitrary screen area for an app when i needed it. But it's like there's a plugin floating around for that too.
I'd also like to give a shout out for windowmaker, almost unmaintained but still kicking, light and fast. I use that on my big opteron cinelerra/video compression gentoo machine, because it's clean, light, and out of the way, and also has keybindings for everything.
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Dec 21 2008 on group No - Desktop !! |
Personally, I like the look and feel of gtk apps for inherently graphical tasks, but both the bloat and instability of gnome frustrate me. I also don't like automagic relying on dbus and all that, it more tends to break things than fix them. I've been down the minimalism hole, drank the kool-aid deeply, then settled on wmaker for a time as a best of both worlds kind of thing, since i could control everything with the keyboard.
Anyways, now I use components from gnome/xfce, to make a system that is lite and pretty. And yeah, i use compiz, cause that eye candy doesn't use as much resources as a lot of people seem to think, mostly the GPU, and that's all it's there for anyways.
The initrc file says it all:
#!/bin/sh
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome&
gnome-settings-daemon&
/home/mack/fixcompiz.sh&
pidgin&
xchat&
xfce4-panel
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