Re: X

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> ok... so the main reason i wasn't really wanting to use X thus far is 
that i
> couldn't get a mouse to work... even after appropriately 
configuring...
> anyhow i broke down and got another serial mouse (little cheapy from 
the
> store) and X works... but man it's slow... so i was wondering:
>         how can i "uninstall" enlightenment/gnome so that i can use
> something a little less graphically intensive? my main desire right 
now is
> for this box to be an HTML producing box, one on which i can write 
some
> scripting source and view it... i truly only need a window manager 
that'll
> let me see my screen @ 800x600, rather quickly, and (even though i'm 
not

Resultion, etc..., is not a window manager thing but depends upon your 
X config.  Most window managers don't care, and any one whould let you 
run netscape or any other app.

> sure this is a window manager thing) let me run Netscape so i can view 
the
> page in it's stunning graphical brilliance (so even i use hyperbole 
from
> time to time) that's my main requirement... i don't care about the 
eye-candy
> part of it all that much, i don't care if there are fish swimming 
around in
> my background or if the earth is spinning or there's snow building up 
on my
> windows... i want a solid color background with generic windows, the 
ability
> to access a generic text editor, and then view the results in 
Navigator...
> i plan on researching all the info on the little GUI window managers 
from
> previous postings to the group... i just don't really know how best to
> remove and add software in Linux...

XFCE = www.xfce.org

You can remopve thigns with rpm, like "rpm -e enlightenment".  There 
is a old presentation about RPM on the KLUG server.

> p.s. oh yeah, that article was knifty, now a guy from where i work 
wants to
> go to a meeting and i think i can kinda catch a ride with him (i know 
WMU
> like i know a $2bill, seen it occasionally but couldn't specifiy 
anything
> about it)