Quoting Jason White (jason@jasonjgw.net):
Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote: [A good candidate for the "mailing list post of the year award", if there were one.]
/me bows, pretends to humility.
At some point the level of complexity really will have to be reduced to make everything easier to administer and easier to debug. I think those who run simple window managers rather than "desktop environments" are well justified in doing so.
Oh, I'm one of them, at that. Hand me, say, a default Debian installation with a DE to be my own, and the very first thing I'm likely to do, even before whittling down the rest of the startup processes, is cd /etc/alternatives mv x-session-manager x-session-manager.disabled That saws the legs out from under the DE. Then, because I'm a retrograde refugee from NeXTSTep: apt-get install wmaker wmaker-data update-alternatives --config x-window-manager -- Cheers, Snowden is accused of giving information to "the enemy". Rick Moen He gave information to the American people. Well, now rick@linuxmafia.com we know who the enemy is. --- Steven Brust McQ! (4x80)