Functional lightweight applications

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[Greyed]

Even though it is non-free, try Opera. In my limited testing I found that it was about 10Mb lighter than FF3 on the same set of pages.

[myusername]

I've been using openbox for quite some time along with many xfce and other light weight applications for everything.

I still have 3 hangs ups. Terminal, web browser, and IM.

For IM I tried SIM but it crashed constantly. I'm using Pidgin now. I tried Empathy but it's buggy too.

For browsers I've tried out dillo (not enough in the proper rendering dept), using firefox now of course, epiphany doesn't work in openbox well (dbus errors), midori crashes all the time, and kazehakase crashes whenever i look at it's preferences (did a source install and that wouldn't even load a page).

As for terminals, my needs are simple. Tabs, quick to open, and the ability to copy and paste. I'm going back and forth between xfce4-terminal (slow to open) and aterm (no copy and paste or tabs).

I find too many light weight apps are close to useless for me, or crash all the time. Anyone got any new suggestions for me?

Any suggestions?

1. i cant help you
2. opera. it may not be light but its lighter than firefox
3. xfce4-terminal is what i use

[cardinals_fan]

Terminal: xfce4-terminal is awesome.

Browser: Kazehakase is the best light-yet-useful browser. The Ubuntu package is broken (hence the crashes), but you can tweak all the prefs with about:config and the files in /etc/kazehakase. Opera is truly superb and has many great features, but remains reasonably light.

IM: Pidgin (and Finch, the CLI version).

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[chris4585]

bitlbee + irssi + xterm = good light messaging tool

[mips]

For a terminal try Sakura.
I find lightweight web browsers lacking, Opera is as close as it gets.

[p_quarles]

As for terminals, my needs are simple. Tabs, quick to open, and the ability to copy and paste. I'm going back and forth between xfce4-terminal (slow to open) and aterm (no copy and paste or tabs).
aterm (and other xterm based terminal emulators) actually do support the features you're looking for. Copy/paste is done using the middle mouse button and simple highlighting. In other words, no, it doesn't handle the clipboard in the way that Gtk+ apps do (VTE terminals like gnome-terminal, Sakura, and xfce4-terminal use Gtk+ libs). But it still handles it just fine.

As for tabs, there is one xterm that does support tabbing: mrxvt. However, you may find that using GNU Screen (man screen) is more powerful and flexible than simple tabbing.

[K.Mandla]

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[mips]

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[urukrama]

For browsers I've tried out dillo (not enough in the proper rendering dept), using firefox now of course, epiphany doesn't work in openbox well (dbus errors), midori crashes all the time, and kazehakase crashes whenever i look at it's preferences (did a source install and that wouldn't even load a page).

I use Opera or Epiphany. Both work fine in Openbox. What version of Ubuntu and Epiphany are you using?

As for terminals, my needs are simple. Tabs, quick to open, and the ability to copy and paste. I'm going back and forth between xfce4-terminal (slow to open) and aterm (no copy and paste or tabs).

You could try Sakura, or urxvt (you can copy and paste there, as in aterm with select/middle mouse click).

[K.Mandla]

As some people have mentioned, the "application suggestion" thread is quite frequent these days.

Moved to Recurring Discussions.

[picpak]

1. Try finch if you wanna dip your hand into the terminal. It's the console version of pidgin.
2. Opera
3. sakura

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