Re: Life without a Window Manager

[Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:16:09 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > __/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 06 October 2006 00:41 \__
> >
> > > After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Culley belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> > >
> > > > begin  risky.vbs
> > > > <l56dnXY_4KETc7nYnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > > Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > > Man, last night XFce blew up in my face!
> > > > >
> > > > > [snip]
> > > > >
> > > > > Turns out there was no xfwm4 (window manager) running!  WTF?
> > > > >
> > > > > I look around in .config/xfce4, but could not find anything to fix.
> > > > Why didn't you just run the xfce (or any) wm from a terminal window. A
> > > > wm is just an X client albeit a rather special one.
> > > I did that, but no go.  But I had the wrong args anyway:
> > >
> > >    xfwm4 --sm-client-id 11c0a86d12000109923752900000003540000 --display
> > >    :0.0
> > >
> > > All is well, though.  Actually a little better as it seems a wee bit
> > > faster.
> > >
> > > Next time I'll do better forensics!
> > That's why they call it "beta" and advice that you only install it on your
> > test machine (or test CMS or whatever). *smile*
>
> And there it is ladies and germs.
> The classic Linux user excuse.
>
> "It's beta/free what do you expect?"

... yup, that's microsoft's position.

> FWIW the entire Linux system can be considered beta, for the most part
> anyway.

You're either stupid or a liar.
... so have you told textstar his distro is nothign but beta stuff?

> BTW why are you always *smiling* at guys?
> Are you homosexual?

Why are you such a cunt?

> > Hope you get this sorted out...


--
Rick