Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:36:51 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <00ff01c172d4$a45e6f10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111201109140.27830-100000@sun08pg2.wam.umd.edu><00a601c17202$0f9af880$0a00000a@atkielski.com><200111202228.47120@starbreaker.net><005701c17289$446b6720$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <qrr8qrx2ke.8qr@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary writes: > It doesn't have lots of useful stuff on it. Neither does a GUI, unless you count icons, title bars, and frames with shading and highlights and milky sparkling opalescence. > It doesn't have the right one inch of the > screen showing info on CPU, memory, or other > info that can be displayed. It doesn't have a clock to tell me what the clock next to the monitor is telling me, either, nor does it have an animated cursor shaped like a sneaker-wearing daemon. It's also missing a cute doggie or R2 D2 clone that appears and gives me answers to questions I haven't asked whenever I do anything that the environment isn't expecting. > It doesn't have a column of buttons in that > one inch which show me most of my running > applications and allow me to switch between them. I usually don't run more than one application, but I suppose that's a drawback. > It doesn't have a little map in that one > inch which allows me to notice instantly which > of several "desktops" I'm currently using and > to switch between them. That one inch sure seems to cover a lot of ground! > Anthony, you are REALLY going to kick yourself > when you learn to compromise in your Windows vs. > Unix mentality and stop restricting yourself to > ONLY a command line in FreeBSD. I'm not restricting myself to a command line. I just haven't seen a GUI thus far that is worth the time and trouble. Almost everything I do is text-based, and I can just open multiple ssh sessions on my Windows machine if I want to do several things at once. > I think many are slicker than fvwm, and a few > are simpler but I think it has a good balance of > features and fairly decent documentation. Okay, I'll try it. I don't suppose there is any way of cleaning up the mess after installation of a window manager, is there? I still have a ton of .something files in my home directory; I deleted everything that looked like it came with KDE, but I'm not really sure if any other junk is still lurking around. I don't see why twenty different dotfiles are necessary for one product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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