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From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net>
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Subject: Re: X + WM != GUI? (Re: Convince me, please! - too much about "GUI")
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Am Freitag 10 August 2007 10:57:38 schrieb perryh@pluto.rain.com:
> Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > i don't use GUI. it takes a lot and gives nothing. i use both text
> > and graphic (X) based apps and no gui. i use fvwm2 with my config,
> > there are plenty of nice other wm's good for that.
>
> I am not following this.  If (X.org + some WM) is not a GUI,
> how would you define

He probably equates a desktop environment (such as KDE/Gnome/etc.) to a GUI. 
Which is wrong, of course: GUI is just any form of "graphical user 
interface", which X fits nicely.

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Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development