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On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, John Edwards mused:
> 
> What ? No fvwm ?
> 	http://www.fvwm.org/
> 
> It's the original virtual window manager, is modulised, and available 
> for a wide range of Unix systems.

It's damn small, too, and is no larger in recent incarnations: this is
fvwm-2.5.12 running a session-managed KDE with a large .fvwm2rc and
heaps of windows:

nix at hades 1 /home/nix% ps -o rss,vsz -C fvwm2
  RSS    VSZ
 2512   7120

(Because all the extension modules are separate apps, talking through
pipes, the main fvwm2 stays tiny, and fvwm2 itself remains robust
against module failure. A nice design; shame about the nasty restrictive
config language.)

> As for a GUI web browser, you could try dillo. It's GTK like galeon, 
> has a smaller memory requirement (~5MB) but does not do complex things 
> such as tabs, type-ahead, etc. Good text based browsers include lynx, 
> links, elinks, w3m.
 
links 2.1* is not a text-*only* browser: it has a really rather nice
graphical mode, which supports svgalib and hence works on machines too
small to run many X implementations (I'm running it here on an 8Mb 486
with 20Mb of free disk space). It supports quite a lot of JS: its
biggest restriction is its total lack of cookie support.

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