Have you guys heard of VWM?

Allamgir · 2009-07-12 18:51:27

http://vwm.sourceforge.net/

Now this is hardcore. It's a window manager that runs completely in the shell. No X, no graphics. Just solid, badass text. There's even a screenshot of the guy watching a movie with MPlayer in ASCII.

I read so much about people trying to be seriously minimal, trim as much bloat as possible, then whine about X being too big. Well, here's your solution if you can stand to do everything by text.

I actually considered becoming a complete command line nomad once, but then I'd have to give up my precious XMonad!!!

I wonder how strong development into this is.

Thor · 2009-07-12 18:55:22

There is also dvtm, it's like dwm but without X

Allamgir · 2009-07-12 19:01:32

To tell you the truth I'm amazed. I always liked small, fast WMs, etc. but I hate the slow hogginess that is X. I might install an configure one of the X-less WMs as a fallback once I start to seriously break my dependence on non-ASCII apps (which might be really hard).

pauldonnelly · 2009-07-12 19:37:52

I'll have to try it out and see if it's better than Twin. I like that it doesn't do weird graphics stuff in X.

Sara · 2009-07-13 00:32:01

I think I prefer dvtm (which I use), but thanks for making a post about vwm--hadn't heard of it before. Until tablet features work in the console though, I can't ditch X (I use a tablet PC).

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Allamgir · 2009-07-13 00:45:28

Dvtm and vwm have gotten me so much more interested in the cli that now I'm going to endeavor to find cli replacements for all of the graphical apps I use and perhaps one day commit to an X-less WM. It almost hurts to think of a day that I forgo xmonad! At least there will be no more haskell headaches. The major drawback is that I lose a lot of hardware support, such as my touchpad and the circular scrolling feature I've come to depend on.

sand_man · 2009-07-13 00:51:09

I just tried it out.
Seems kinda average. I see no benefit over a normal terminal.

Sara · 2009-07-14 03:04:18

If you're using dvtm, can you tell me if you're having trouble with elinks? The mouse doesn't function properly in elinks (I can't use the mouse to click on links, for instance), within dvtm, but it works just fine on the console (sans dvtm), so I know it isn't a gpm issue. I really like dvtm, but without proper mouse functionality... at least for the console apps that are quite dear to me, then it's just not worth it . I hope it's just something wrong with my install and a recompile with some different options configured would fix it.

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Have you guys heard of VWM?

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