make my thinkpad into a typewriter

[Matt Price]

hi,

i have a thinkpad x31 -- so medium-powered -- which is currently running
a vanilla ubuntu.  i'm not unsatisfied with it but i'd like to be able
to work without all the distracting bells and whistlesof the gnome
environment.  Thus far any attempts to load a framebuffer module kill my
console, which means the console really isn't adequate for doingwork --
can't see enough text on the screen.  So  i'm looking for a lightweight
window manager with the following characteristics:

- boots very fast
- tiled or tabbed interface
- easy way to maximize a window to fill the whole screen (so, overriding
the tiling).  
- fast keybindings that don't conflict with emacs

basically, i want to run a maximized emacs session most of the time, but
have other apps in the background waiting in case i need them.  and i
wouldn't mind to have some tind of statusbar or something, with say the
battery levels and the time displayed -- so i don't have to switch to a
terminal just to type "date" or "acpi"    

I will also sometimes need a wireless internet connection, so i was
thinking i would need a systray for nm-applet -- but i see that there's
a new cnetworkmanager applet for the command line.  

i like the looks of xmonad but don't see that there's an easy way to
toggle a window between tiled and maximized state.  if anyone has a
configuration for xmonad -- or any other lightweight wm -- that does
what i'm looking for, i'd love to see it.  thanks as always,

matt




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