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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Small X for 386 bsd?? Message-ID: <80hnj7a.hasty@netcom.com> Date: 1 Sep 92 01:53:17 GMT References: <1992Aug31.153743.24065@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <s1hn7an.hasty@netcom.com> <1992Aug31.214129.3861@news.uit.no> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 31 In article <1992Aug31.214129.3861@news.uit.no> thostr@stud.cs.uit.no (Thomas Strandenaes) writes: >What he is looking for, is something similar to MGR; a subset >of X, with half the pain, and 3/4 the pleasure. Actually, I`m >too longing for something niftyer than X, which won`t make my >machine go slo-mo. > >MGR, anyone? > >//thomas I realized that some people may want a minimal X window. While I try to come up with a minimal configuration for general distribution, someone other than me can come up with a first crack at it. Personally, I don't think this is an unreasonable request given the fact that X is publicly availabe, the diffs for X386 1.2e 1.0.1 and that people have actually built X servers on their machine. As for X dragging your machine down, first thing that comes up to my is what is your hardware configuration? And, how much memory to you have? Also, do you have the patch to the com driver to solve the select problem. You mentioned that you would like something niftier. What is it about X that you think it lacks. Bear in mind that motif and openlook have been ported to X386 . If you or anyone can come up with a better windowing system than X which enjoys such wide support not only on 386bsd but across many operating systems and that is FREE, Please let me know. Amancio Hasty