Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:50:43 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120225043.GC82211@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <00c801c17205$1175f2b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> 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>
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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
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