re: X Windows and alternatives

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:00 AM,   Kenno Han wrote:
> It is hard looking for FB-based window manager. I do have some sugestion on
> an alternative. Are you comfortable with curses-based?

Always interested in suggestions and recommendations.  I happen to
like curses based applications.

I've been looking into some of the lighter-weight window managers.  At
the moment, I really like jwm.  That has very few X dependencies and I
read that there was a port of some version of it that worked on nano-x
without X.

I've also done some research on ways to run multiple apps outside of X
Windows.  There are options like screen, dvtm, twin and tmux.  Haven't
found one where I'm comfortable with the key-mappings yet and I didn't
notice any that had options to customize key-mappings.

Thought this thread on the topic looked interesting:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/21216/the-great-directfb-thread/
There's also some directfb support for X applications with XDirectFb:
http://directfb.org/index.php?path=Projects%2FXDirectFB
There's some information at the Arch wiki on framebuffer projects at:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbpad

I do a lot of work straight from the command line and typically don't
even go into X unless I want to multitask or run an X based
application.  So I a window manager isn't an essential to me for
getting tasks done (although it can be very convenient).

One thing I'd really love to find is a decent programming editor.  I
realize that's an incredibly subjective subject.  What I want most in
a programming editor is to be able to map the commands to any keys I
want.  The second thing I want is to be able to shell out, run other
applications and bring back the results to work with (such as jumping
to error message lines in files after compiling).  I currently use
SciTE, but I'd like to find something a lot more lightweight.  I do
like nano and pico, but I find them kind of restrictive.  I've never
been able to get used to emacs and I tried very hard to customize vim,
but it takes me a month to write a customization that I can do in a
day with SciTE.  I recently looked at FXiTe, but it's missing some of
the functionality I like in SciTE.  It loads faster than SciTE, but
both require X Windows.  If anyone knows of a lightweight programming
editor with really good keymapping support, I'd very much like to hear
about it.

If anyone has any other tips on lightweight X alternatives or building
a lighter version of X, hope you'll share them.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Laura
http://www.distasis.com/cpp/osrclist.htm
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