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> I will remove XLI and Abiword from the menu.

Neomagic video on my Presario 1230 (similar chips are on Gateway, Hitachi, 
DELL, IBM) crashes the same way with Xfbdev when I try to run xli or 
switch VTs.  It crashes with Xvesa but is supposed to work with SVGA 
server. Xfbdev works if you don't switch VTs and do avoid certain 
programs.

To avoid X (Opera / javascript) and improve usability of my 16MB-RAM 
laptop, I will attempt to compile edbrowse, a text editor cum html 
renderer (browser) in two versions, both with javascript support.  About 
300K download (plus the Mozilla spidermonkey javascript code which I could 
not get to work with elinks).  Designed for the blind, in C.  Precompiled 
dynamic binary available, static one may be forthcoming for linux and 
Windows.  (Is DOS possible?.)  There is a 
non-javascript version in perl.  No graphics support, or text formatting. 
Supports streaming audio and plugins such as pdftohtml.

Single-key commands (b for browse an html file).  SSL (uses cert.pem) and 
cookies.  The sample config file provides a way to remove junk from 
google.


http://www.elkhad.net/linux/app/

How might I make a menu of commonly used programs without jwm/X?