[Gllug] new member....

[Tom Hannen]

I read somewhere that Links now works with GMail...  But I'm wondering
how that could be if it doesn't support cookies....  Also, would you
recommend fvwm over iceWM in terms of performance on old machines (486
era)?



On 8/5/05, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> 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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