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Re: Request for window manager recommendations



--- "Steve C. Lamb" <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:

>     Nope.  It's spot on.  Forcing people to learn loads up front to

No, I've said, it's just another means to configure something.  If
something is predominately a text-based configuration, then that can be
just as intuitive as a graphical one, IMO.
  
>     I don't see it as subjective.  What I presented was not
> subjective, it was
> objective.  Several less steps.  Less change for breakage.  Tell me,
> presuming
> a bad default configuration which prevents access to a shell through
> the X
> session and using a thin client for connectivity how exactly is one
> supposed
> to effect changes to the configuration file when one can't access the
> darned
> thing to modify in the first place?  Having a good portion of the

Any editor will do at the console -- nano, jed, vim, emacs, etc.

> configuration inside the application itself, readily accessible does
> not
> preclude text file configuration.  If you think it does, go try
> configuring

I never said it did.

-- Thomas Adam.


	
	
		
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