From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 15 14:37:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B534537B401 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sephiroth (dialup-uu-dynamic93.cshore.com [63.112.158.93]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E7B823F41; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:55:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:44:48 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: "Doug Reynolds" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Shortcomings of X Message-Id: <20010915174448.53326278.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <20010915201319.90F4423FFE@IMGate1.cshore.com> References: <20010915201319.90F4423FFE@IMGate1.cshore.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Granted, X has its shortcomings -- it's somewhat clunky, and a pain to setup at times, especially if you have a card that just hit the market (framebuffer, anyone?). Aside from that, I'd rather put up with X at home than with MS Windows. At worst, I can kill -9 X and work from a commandline. Good luck doing that with Windows. Though the Berlin project also looks interesting, I should follow its progress more closely... ****** Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "Snafu uber alles." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message