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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:06:14 -0500
From:      Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GUI Suggested?
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
>> >>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
>> >>> vim-like (among other things ;-).
>> >>
>> >> Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotwm
>> >> developer(s)? =A0Earlier today, I read this on the site:
>> >>
>> >> =A0 =A0 "On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings an=
d
>> >> =A0 =A0 xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C."
>> >>
>>
>> hahahahahahaha!
>>
>> >> What's up with that? =A0How does Haskell "cripple" xmonad?
>> >>
>>
>> In the end, you need not take yourself so seriously. =A0The thread was
>> generic enough to allow for some rhetorical flourish. I suggested
>> something . . . pointed out that is written in C (as did the homepage)
>> . . . =A0AND you concluded some sort of insult; not my problem.
>>
>> Do you need a rim-shot for every joke?
>
> 1. Who said I took insult? =A0You assume too much.
>
> 2. That was not a very clever joke, anyway. =A0Where's the punchline?
>
> 3. That doesn't answer my question about the Scrotwm page.
>
> Even *I* am not so socially stunted as to think a comment like that on
> the Scrotwm site would not raise some eyebrows.
>

Some? sure.

In the end, scrotwm is a simple wm that allows the
"gui-apprehensive-type" folk a nice CLI in X. That's all I was
suggesting.

"Shave and a haircut" . . . Chad?



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