Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

William Ballard wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:20:27AM +0000, Ed Sutherland wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments 
> > (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I 
> > understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while 
> > others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if 
> > these app categories can politely run in a window manager (that is, 
> > using just the gnome toolkit.)
> >
> > E-mail (Thunderbird)
> > Web (Firefox)
> > Office (OpenOffice)
> > Contacts (Rubrica)
> >    
>
> Firefox and Openoffice work fine.
>
> If you apt-get kcontrol and apt-get gnome-control-center, you will have 
> "just enough" KDE and Gnome to run apps -- just make sure aptitude 
> doesn't bring in the display managers, session managers, and window 
> managers.  Then you'll need to run gnome-settings-daemon and kdeinit in 
> your startup so that settings are loaded.
>
>
>  
Although if you have enough drive space, you can install that stuff 
without using it. Your post implies you already have all the Gnome 
stuff; just instead of loading gnome, load your lighter weight wm 
instead, and if an app needs the gnome libraries, it'll load them at 
that time. (I wouldn't bother with loading "gnome-settings daemon" and 
"kdeinit" in your startup, although William probably knows more than I 
do and you might be better off to follow his advice.)

--
Kent