Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!nntp.comgw.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 12 Jun 2025 18:26:41 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <101tsvg$en0o$1@paganini.bofh.team> <6843417c$0$8575$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <20250609093835.0000784c@gmail.com> <1027nss$ptre$6@dont-email.me> <1029fb5$19mj3$3@dont-email.me> <1029h19$pc00$1@news1.tnib.de> <102eofv$2nr6u$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ePTvocj9l0x6ABhfhGlLpQle8vqMKuBTMBJHwWuttdOsAG6ibY Cancel-Lock: sha1:g1QwYBtJmztt1ngTYeO2inOTtgc= sha256:qldhQD4y4kjbJXkks0ZJt03zEjMlRisrr8yEygiMAKU= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:33:35 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote: > If you like, consider "gearshift" as "a lever that selects a drive mode" > such that it covers the 2% manual transmission folks, and the "PRND2L" > handle for an automatic. Although some, newer automatics, do have the > "PRND2L" as "buttons on the dash" -- so in those cases there isn't a > gearshift lever at all... My '60 Plymouth had buttons on the dash... https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history- the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-chrysler-pushbutton-automatic-a- government-conspiracy/ Other manufacturers had pushbuttons too. iirc Packard had them in the middle of the steering wheel. Corvair had a lever on the dash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvair_Powerglide None of those were shift by wire, unless you count the cable going to the transmission as a 'wire'. I think the move to floor shift ATs was to standardize the location. Chrysler Corp MTs in that era were 3 on the tree.