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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > icewm&
> > exec opera&
> > rxvt
> >
> > Is this correct?
>
> No, I would do it this way:
> ---------
> icewm &
> opera &
> exec rxvt

Okay, I will add that.

> ---------
>
> > > Then why do you object to a complete icewm installation?
> >
> > I have no use for the various programs that are included
> > with it (graphical clock and calculator)
>
> Graphic clock?  Calculator?  I must have missed those.
> No sign of them in my icewm.

I just mounted and chrooted to BL3 on vt4 (from BL2) and the BL3 icewm, 
under utilities, has an analog clock (with a dial and hands) and a big 
colorful graphical calculator.  Does BL2 icewm not have these?  I don't 
have it on this computer to compare.  I installed the BL3 icewm package 
but did not want to install the BL2-X package because I was doing Xvesa 
instead of Xvga, so I only picked out one piece at a time until it worked 
and the utilities did not make it there.

Maybe the clock and calculator were left over from swm?

I just lost the cursor in VGA when I exited Xvesa to 80x30 so I cannot 
look at the files (mini_httpd is using the other mda console - I should 
have type & after it).  I suppose I should give up on 80x30.

> > or all the themes.
>
> It's easy to delete unneeded theme files.  Ditto fonts.
> The icewm config files are easily edited.  Elements
> are stored as separate files.  Just delete the ones
> you don't want.
>
> > Eventually I will add the menu and one theme
> > once I figure out just how to do that
>
> The easiest way is to install the full config and
> delete the files/directories you don't want.

Okay.

> > useless files all over the place (locale files take
> > up a few M, things for other hardware in glibc and
> > kernel a few more M).
>
> Don't forget all the stuff in /usr/doc.  It's amazing
> how much accumulates in there.  Every few months delete
> the lot.

I think I have about 5MB of files on how to use db, which came with glibc, 
tho I have no idea what it does, and quite a bit of info on perl as well 
(I needed it in order to compile one program, I think it was an arrow 
mouse which did not work). I sometimes go through and delete COPYING and 
CHANGELOG and such - is there a way to do it with something like rm -r 
COPYING?  The doc files are sometimes useful since they are easier to read 
than man pages.


> Cheers,
> Steven