From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40611 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: any tips for how to tune Gnus/emacs for low memory usage? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:30:20 -0500 Organization: Kippona Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87r8qhfy4j.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> References: <87snb2tyku.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87pu65xkj0.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87n118qp5z.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <01Nov27.141344est.119179@gateway.intersystems.com> <15363.59869.835861.394831@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <15363.62049.590604.254123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87oflmh5oq.fsf@bang.priv.no> Reply-To: Chris Beggy NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176134 1856 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17482 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 14:31:13 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 14:31:13 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 169SDD-0004np-00; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:30:51 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:30:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA06791 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:30:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 17472 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2001 14:30:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17467 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 14:30:28 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (root@207.8.195.148) by gnus.org with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 14:30:28 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Kippona) with ESMTP id fATEUPQM017868 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit/Kippona) id fATEUPjx017867; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:30:25 -0500 X-Reply-To: Chris Beggy Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Trace: lackawana.kippona.com 1007044223 17852 207.8.195.148 (29 Nov 2001 14:30:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@kippona.com X-gpgkeyid: 0x8060510A X-fingerprint: 6012 F8F8 29B3 67E4 0604 BCD2 F882 88AE 8060 510A Cancel-Lock: sha1:IIqSfq0J9JBh85rJFrJtg2vjQVk= Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40611 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > On the Ion list, some patches have been circulating which allow you I compiled, installed, evaluated and took a look at the output of ls -l and size for some of the small window managers: size name comment -------------------------------------------------------------------- 17232 aewm* simple, few knobs, plug-ins for menus 1293351 blackbox* not really small, coffemaker 187976 fvwm2* supports mouseless 119812 fvwm95* supports mouseless 18968 heliwm* couldn't get it to launch an xterm, my bad 66496 larswm* tiling, good mouseless, documentation 23668 lwm* simple 57819 ratpoison* max screen use, emacs-like, good mouseless 127332 twm* classic 29436 w9wm* virtual screens, not mouseless 165757 wm2* excellent aesthetics, not mouseless 672256 wmx* wm2 aesthetics, virtuals, good mouseless text data bss dec hex filename ------------------------------------------------ 14241 572 132 14945 3a61 aewm 160897 26996 336 188229 2df45 blackbox 178635 4456 12096 195187 2fa73 fvwm2 112149 3024 2916 118089 1cd49 fvwm95 16187 584 436 17207 4337 heliwm 62936 736 11844 75516 126fc larswm 20160 832 152 21144 5298 lwm 33919 1216 448 35583 8aff ratpoison 118911 5080 82484 206475 3268b twm 24615 2304 348 27267 6a83 w9wm 61977 13068 432 75477 126d5 wm2 92111 14720 188 107019 1a20b wmx I don't understand why wm2 is so large, given that its feature set is similar to aewm or lwm. I'm interested in making best use of a small laptop screen, mouseless navigation, freeing up resources for emacs :-) Chris