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On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:52:32AM +0100, hv@xxxxx.xxx wrote:
> Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> :Really, does anyone use Linux as a desktop computer and *enjoy* the=20
> :experience?
>=20
> Yes. As far as I am concerned, a window manager's job is to let me open
> enough xterms with vi sessions - I use fvwm, with a 4x4 virtual window,
> and typically have between 50 and 200 separate vi sessions open, and
> they're organised so I know where each one is.
>=20
> I use very few graphical programs: a browser, a mail client, a couple
> of games, and occasionally something to view jpegs or pdfs. I don't
> use audio. I set up X when the computer was new, then didn't need to
> do it again.
Hear, hear.
Same here. I use fvwm2, and I use a configuration file that hasn't
have any significant changes since 1993. I copy the config file from
system to system, and from OS to OS. I've used Linux (Debian, Redhat,
Slackware, SuSe), Solaris, HP-UX and Cygwin in the past dozen years,
and my screen has looked the same on all of them [*]. Same hotkeys as well.
3x3 virtual windows, mostly filled with rxvts. Most of the rxvts run vile
(a vi clone). Mail, news, mud, and IRC are all run from my rxvts. Only a
view programs are 'graphical': web wowser (netscape or mozilla), image
displayer (display), document viewers (xdvi, ghostview, acrobat reader).
The few games I play, I either play on the web (turn-based), or in an
rxvt: angband. And I use 3x3 virtual windows is because that maps nicely
to the positive numbers on the keypad: hitting them switches between the
virtual windows. F5 brings up a new rxvt, F6 kills the current window.
F1 cycles the window (brings it up or down). F12 locks the screen.
Music comes from the radio. In fact, most boxes I use I never can be
bothered to configure sound.
[*] Black background. Non-active windows have a black border, active
windows dark blue. Rxvt uses black letters on a grayish background.
6x13 font. Scrollbar on the right. In the upper left corner of the
screen, from left to right, each 64x64 pixels: xclock, xload and
Fvwm's pager. Spartan for the modern Gnome/KDE, but ideal for me.
But this list is about hate, so I'll just shut up now.
Abigail
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