Mikael Magnusson

rxvt-unicode is a modern, Unicode-aware color xterm replacement that uses significantly less memory than a conventional xterm and many other Unicode supporting terminal emulators. It supports using multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft fonts, and client-server technology to reduce memory ... [More] consumption when using multiple windows. [Less]

Openbox is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager. Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was ... [More] written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface. Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments. [Less]

From site: A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modeled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. It is used, among others, in the GNU Virtual Private Ethernet and rxvt-unicode packages. Features include child/pid watchers and periodic timers based on ... [More] wallclock (absolute) time (in addition to timers using relative timeouts), as well as epoll/kqueue/event ports/inotify support, fast timer management, time jump detection and correction, and ease-of-use. It can be used as a libevent replacement using its emulation API or directly embedded into your programs without the need for complex configuration support. A full-featured and well-documented perl interface is also available. [Less]