I use screen but this is not what I'm asking. I need a real windowing system
like Win32 or X11 but much lighter, in which I settle for much less
option(e.g. limited fonts, colors, resolution ....), BUT can navigate using
mouse pointers, buttons, forms, etc....


"Sam Roberts" <sroberts / uniserve.com> wrote in message
news:20030220024532.GA21577 / debian...
> Hi Useko.
>
> Try "screen", its amazing, though it may not be exactly what you have in
> mind.
>
> Sam
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html
>
> Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
> terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.  Each
> virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and,
> in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429)
> and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for
> multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each
> virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to
> move text regions between windows.  When screen is called, it creates a
> single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then
> gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally
> would.  Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with
> other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window,
> view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy
> text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between
> windows, etc.  All windows run their programs completely independent of
> each other.  Programs continue to run when their window is currently not
> visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the
> users terminal.
>
> Quoteing usenets / nyc.rr.com, on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:53:34AM +0900:
> > As I have only limited resources on my laptop(memory, diskspace, and CPU
> > speed), I was wondering if there is any a very lite windowing system to
> > emulate basic/limited Windows or X11 functionality, may be 'curses' base
or
> > something else.
> >
> > So, instead of just pure character mode web browser such as 'lynx', may
be
> > we can have a limited GUI based mini-web browser with limited
> > Graphics/Fonts/Menu Systems/Forms/Button/etc.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
>