I3wm, any progress?

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 14:49:04 UTC 2022


# I'm currently using flwm as my window manager, not because of any 
specific # features, but because it has the fewest dependencies and 
smallest # disc usage of the Window managers I've tried with the 
aforementioned # script that works with Firefox+Orca with a completely 
default config

# for the window manager(can't remember which,


Back when I did work for F123, we used a window manager called jwm I 
believe it was. As I recall, it worked perfectly in the manner you 
describe, and the installed size on disk was extremely small. We used 
this to run Firefox and a few other applications that we would run 
standalone with Orca running in the background from the startup script. 
I don't remember flwm being available at that time, but I found that jwm 
was very light and had few dependencies also. Running from a Raspberry 
Pi 3 at the time, this is before even the 3B+, Firefox did start up 
rather slowly, but that was because the browser is large and resource 
intensive, not at all because of the window manager. So on machines like 
this especially, it looks like there are two possibilities now for 
window managers that work very well with those tight resource constraints.

~Kyle



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