Re: ASCII window manager and installer

[Bill Crawford <bill syseng netcom net uk>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> Red Hat, please please please make an RPM of the TWIN window manager
> (URL below) and include it both as a multi window ascii desktop, and
> maybe as a multi window text installer.
> And since we are at that, please restart development of the SVGAText
> package and make an RPM of it including working modelines for modern
> and less modern cards.
>
> TWIN and SVGAText together = multiple windows simultaneously at
> 1024x768 resolution or higher without X!!!!

 Framebuffer drivers for the kernel would make more sense, perhaps in
conjunction with libsvga where appropriate for low-key graphics.  At
home I run my console at 800x600 (130x37 I think is the character cell
resolution) and the hardware will just about do 1024x768 in text mode.
Higher resolutions need graphics mode, at which point I might as well
open X up and use xterm (since I can resize them, use different fonts
and so on as well as overlap them).

 Higher resolution console plus virtual terminal support plus a good
set of text-mode programs like VIm, pine/mutt, etc. can make a handy
environment for those who want a break from graphic eye-candy though.

> Mutt, Emacs/VI, Lynx, text news readers... all you need for low
> resource full desktop computing, without half of your CPU and RAM eaten
> by a windowing environment heavy as hell.

> Please, please, please....
>
> 		Marco Fioretti
>
> TWIN URL: http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/
>
>
>

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