Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome
On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:09:02 -0500 (CDT)
Kevin Monceaux <Kevin@RawFedDogs.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008, JoseC.Rodriguez@gmail.com wrote:
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> > For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion
> > and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just
> > want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the
> > way I interact with my coputer.
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> I'm not sure if I've tried Ion before. I've tried many window managers.
> Anyway, this post inspired my to try, or retry, Ion and I might have found
> my new favorite window manager. After I tweak a few things I think I'm
> going to be hooked. The only thing I've found so far that is
> disappointing is that my favorite image viewer, xv, does strange things
> under Ion. For example, if I start xv to view several images, it displays
> the first image stretched or shrunk to completely fill the screen, even
> if it smegs up the aspect ratio in the process. Cycling through the other
> images, most are displayed at the correct size, but they're displayed on
> top of the first image, which stays on the screen. I've seen it exhibit
> similar behavior under XFCE. Running it with -nodecor, which removes the
> window decorations, under XFCE seems to work around that quirk. It
> doesn't help under Ion. I might have to switch to a more modern image
> viewer. I've tried qiv a few times, and it seems to work well under Ion.
>
fvwm can also be configured to be light on both screen an machine resources
on my previous laptop I got it to startup with about 20 mb of ram including a
running terminal (urxvt). I also configured it to have the titlebar on the side
(it was a 14" 1024x768 screen) and a shortcut to remove the titlebar all
together.
As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use
gqview though.
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> Kevin
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