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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat GUI for RHEL5 on low memory system Post 302867171 by Corona688 on Wednesday 23rd of October 2013 02:48:09 PM
Old 10-23-2013
When I had to use X on a 128MB PIII machine, I used Fluxbox. DOSbox and the like ran fine.

The difference is startling. With 128MB and Gnome I couldn't run GIMP in the remaining memory. With 128MB and Fluxbox, I could compile GIMP in the remaining memory.

Fluxbox does not give you a file browser, however!
 

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fbdesk(1)							     WM Utils								 fbdesk(1)

NAME
fbdesk - Icons on the desktop SYNOPSIS
fbdesk [option] OPTIONS
-display DISPLAY Connect to display. -na Do not use antialias features. -rc RESOURCE FILE Default configuration file to read is ~/.fluxbox/init Print available options. -v Print the version number. DESCRIPTION
Fbdesk is a fluxbox-util application that creates and manage icons on your Fluxbox desktop. Features implemented include: - Transparent text and icon - xpm, png, jpg, jfi, jfif, pnm, ppm, pgm, pbm, pam, tga, gif and bmp image loading - Antialias text - UTF-8 and multibyte support - Vertical text - Grid Snapping - GUI for editing command/label and add/remove icons - Fluxbox menu style ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
The defaul configuration file is ~/.fluxbox/init whose entries: fbdesk.iconFile: filename to icon file (default: ~/.fluxbox/fbdesk.icons) fbdesk.font: icon font name (default: fixed) fbdesk.textColor: color for icon text (default: black) fbdesk.textBackground: color (default: white) fbdesk.snapX: x snap size (default: 5) fbdesk.snapY: y snap size (default: 5) fbdesk.doubleClickInterval: time interval between clicks for a double click (default: 200) fbdesk.textPlacement: placement for text around icon image (default: Bottom) fbdesk.lockPositions: bool (default: false) # Possible values for text placement: Left, Right, Top and Bottom session.styleFile: style file for menu (default: none) this one is read from ~/.fluxbox/init The Icon file format is: # this is a comment # Start of one icon entry [Deskop Entry] Icon=the image filename Name=the icon label Exec=what it executes Pos= 123 456 # position of the icon [end] # end of one icon entry An example of iconfile: [Desktop Entry] Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-home.png Name=aterm Exec=aterm Pos= 100 100 [end] SEE ALSO
dfm(1) rox-files(1) xtdesk(1) Homepage http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/ AUTHORS
Program author Henrik Kinnunen <fluxgen@users.sourceforge.net> This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released under GPL v2 or any later version. fbdesk 2012-03-09 fbdesk(1)
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