make my thinkpad into a typewriter

[JoeHill]

Matt Price wrote: 

> 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,

Try Pekwm, very very lightweight. I have it running on an old Pentium 100 here
and it's fine.

-- 
JoeHill
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