From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:22:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20170222142237.GA3043@jocasta.intra> References: <87wpci347f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k28ie328.fsf@lassieur.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgXoe-000588-5i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:22:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgXoc-0004R0-Sl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:22:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k28ie328.fsf@lassieur.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Cl??ment Lassieur Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Cl??ment Lassieur wrote: Mathieu Lirzin writes: =20 > While we are on this lightweight template, what would you think of > replacing ratpoison with something less "exotic" like openbox? :) =20 What do you mean by "exotic"? Isn't that subjective? :) =20 Here are the results of "guix size": - ratpoison: 172.6 MiB, - i3-wm: 263.4 MiB, - openbox: 322.9 MiB. =20 So Openbox is almost twice as big as Ratpoison, which I think matters for a "lightweight" template. Furthermore, Ratpoison quite is convenient to use for those of us who use GNU Emacs and GNU Screen. If you want a small, yet easy to use window manager there is always twm: 104 MiB J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlitnq0ACgkQimdxnC3oJ7N2SACfRDggOV1J4S25SRBsXNnLxKTW 3k4An3xOPklqSHIuizeHkkDzHf0AfpeE =+v+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--