[clug] lightweight tool for creating PDA-style Apps

Jack Kelly endgame.dos at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 03:46:02 MDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM, James Polley<clug at zhasper.com> wrote:
> ChromeOS?
> I think the Crunch Tablet thingy was going to do something similar.
>
> I've never done it, but I've used RatPoison and ion3 for a long time;
> they're no-frills window managers that don't add any window decorations and
> rely heavily on the keyboard. Extra benefit - instead of having to switch
> back to tty for console work, you can have an xterm open beside your browser
> and switch between the two easily.

+1 for ratpoision. I've used it at uni for a few years, where they
don't have all of xmonad's depends installed. It's a fantastic little
window manager, and there have been times where I've logged on, done
what I need and left before the human next to me even finished logging
into KDE =).

-- Jack


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