Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Cl??ment Lassieur wrote:
     Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > While we are on this lightweight template, what would you think of
     > replacing ratpoison with something less "exotic" like openbox? :)
     
     What do you mean by "exotic"?  Isn't that subjective? :)
     
     Here are the results of "guix size":
       - ratpoison: 172.6 MiB,
       - i3-wm: 263.4 MiB,
       - openbox: 322.9 MiB.
     
     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'

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