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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: SMALL Xterms AND Window Managers Message-ID: <g89r4222.751929348@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <2ajpvi$c60@news.u.washington.edu> <CFIovw.MLn@ucdavis.edu> <2am9o4$37d@keltia.frmug.fr.net> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 21:15:48 GMT Lines: 28 In <2am9o4$37d@keltia.frmug.fr.net> roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes: >Jason Gabler (ccjason@othello.ucdavis.edu) wrote: >> I was hoping someone had a list/review of different xterm rewrites and window >> managers that are smaller than xterm and twm. >For the window managers, try fvwm, it has a Motif-like look, and consumes >very little memory (around 300 KB againt ctwm 3.5 MB :-)). Available on >sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/X11/window-managers as fvwm-0.99-src.tar.gz. >For xterm, try rxvt, current version is 1.4, again on sunsite into >/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/terms (not sure, check). Memory consumption is about >400 KB per rxvt (against 1.2 MB for xterm). Needs a patch for c_cc array >(beginning of command.c to put control characters in the proper order) and >another patch for TIOCSETA instead of TCSETA. Robert Nation has made rxvt-1.45 available on spcot.sanders.com (it includes patches for FreeBSD) and Nate Williams has made a binary package of fvwm and rxvt available on freebsd.cdrom.com (this version of rxvt contains extra fixes for the utmp support). Geoff. (Oh yes - fvwm is also available on spcot.sanders.com) -- ===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\