Recomendation for a lightweigth window manager

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-05-20 18:30, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up a machine to sue as a dedicated replacement for an alarm
> printer on a control system.
>
> I was not planing to use a window manager at all, and I actually have a
> rather nice looking X session with no borders working. However, now I have
> a request to add a browser to allow looking at some web based stuff.
>
> I want to setup a user interface where the operators can iconify, and
> resize windows, but not close them. The machine in question is only a P at .
>
> So what would you recommend for a very lightweight window manager for this
> application?

You could always run a (possibly patched) version of Windowmaker and
disable the close button, the resize bar, the keyboard "close" command
and the "close" or "kill" options of the system menu.  For instance,
I'm typing this in an xterm that looks like this...

http://www.freebsd.org/~keramida/files/xterm.png

Windowmaker isn't exactly "super light" but it's fast enough and very
configurable :-)

: last pid:  1652;  load averages:  0.11,  0.06,  0.05    up 0+00:56:30  04:19:14
: 43 processes:  1 running, 39 sleeping, 3 stopped
: CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
: Mem: 51M Active, 113M Inact, 43M Wired, 4320K Cache, 60M Buf, 288M Free
: Swap: 1000M Total, 1000M Free
:
:   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
:  1375 giorgos   96    0 42788K 37632K select   0:50  0.00%  0.00% mozilla-bin
:   543 giorgos   96    0 97064K 96268K select   0:18  0.00%  0.00% XFree86
:   596 root      96    0  2996K  1900K select   0:06  0.00%  0.00% ppp
:   597 giorgos   96    0  4384K  3700K select   0:03  0.00%  0.00% xterm
:   359 root      96    0  1120K   680K select   0:03  0.00%  0.00% moused
:   548 giorgos   96    0  4788K  3384K select   0:03  0.00%  0.00% wmaker