From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 14:51: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2A537B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 166JjC-0005Qd-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:50:54 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 166Jj1-000LQx-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:50:43 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:50:43 +0000 From: setantae To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120225043.GC82211@rhadamanth> References: <20011120105642.GA75918@rhadamanth> <012d01c171b6$96b5adc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120114236.GA76431@rhadamanth> <005f01c171bf$c4d06b10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120131850.GA77414@rhadamanth> <001f01c171cf$430e8ac0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120150009.GA78153@rhadamanth> <008f01c171fb$a5108da0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120201935.GB80963@rhadamanth> <00c801c17205$1175f2b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00c801c17205$1175f2b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:50:57PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ceri writes: > > > I refute your assumption that a system that > > doesn't run Windows applications is useless. > > If you can get by without any Windows applications, your refutation is valid. > But most people need to run at least a few Windows applications, unless they > have Macs (which have a large enough choice of applications to avoid Windows > entirely and still get lots of things done). Yet another assumption. I personally don't _need_ any Windows applications at all. I do keep a Windows system in the house so I can play Giants, and I do like using Free Agent to read news, but I run that under Wine on FreeBSD. > > There you go again. > > Window Managers Do Not Run Applications. > > All you need is an X server to run Netscape. > > Maybe I'm confused. How do you run an X server or an application within it > without a window manager? It's easy. I believe it was Kris who pointed out how to do it somewhere else in this thread. All you lose is the ability to resize and move the window. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message