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From: Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 14:58:01 -0000 (UTC)
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> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>So, what Desktop Environment/Window Manager do you use, and why? 

I have a homemade "Session Manager" written in Tcl/Tk, I use a panel from
XFCE4 (without a "start" menu), and FVWM2 in MWM mode. This (more or less)
gives me what I had on VAXStations and DECStations under VMS and Ultrix w/
DECWindows way back when.

I *never* used MS-Windows or MacOSX and I have no use for a "desktop" that
mimics either. I learned on UNIX workstations back in the "early" days and
moved onto Linux from there. None of the "modern" (so-called) desktop
environments appeal to me and I find them hard to use. I'd just as soon stick
with what I know and feel confortable with. I find graphical file managers
very hard to use -- generally "clunky". I am much more confortable using a
shell window to navigate my file system(s).

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