Window Managers For Small Screens?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 3, 2003 @05:50AM from the rat-poison dept.

saintlupus writes "I've got a question for the rest of the Slashdot community. I'm using an old clamshell iBook at work with Debian/PPC on it. As any Apple site can tell you, the iBooks of that era had a maximum resolution of 800x600. Now, I use a 19" monitor and a 17" monitor running together with Xinerama on my machine at home, and I'm used to that much space. I use WindowMaker on that computer, but on an 800x600 screen those Dock icons look the size of buses. Can anyone recommend a window manager that uses a minimum of screen real estate so that I can fit a bit more on the iBook's LCD?"

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Re:Windowless window manager by Goo.cc · 2003-12-03 06:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

Well, how about no window manager?

When I was using NetBSD, I wanted to run console only (I liked the command line and felt no need to turn a free, Unix-like OSes into Windows) but I didn't care for the limited number of lines and columns that NetBSD provided in its VGA console. My solution was to run X without a window manager, setting everything up via .xinitrc and using a healthly amount of -geometry switches. And if I needed it, twm was a command away.

You can see an example of what I did here.