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    From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to Dingo on Fri Aug 30 01:14:11 2013
    Re: Delightful window manager
    By: Dingo to Access Denied on Wed Aug 28 2013 03:38 pm



    Not really my style. Then again, I can't prove anything. I wish I wo taken screenshots of my fully configured fluxbox WM I had. It was pr

    lol. Even though my heads up my ass and you don't like to hear from me,
    I'll challenge you this one, somehow I got one from about 10 years ago
    I'll share with ya:

    http://1984.ws/flux.jpg

    It says Monday, Nov 11th, which would be 2002, 11 years ago, wow. The
    friend on the other end sent me his fluxbox customization in return:

    http://1984.ws/flux2.jpg

    And here's a windowmaker customization from around that time:

    http://1984.ws/wm.jpg

    Boy am I glad I stopped customizing and fooling with .rc files! Who the
    hell has time for that anymore! People are now storing their .dotrc
    files as projects on github, its the "in" thing to do, lol. I'm
    actually a little sad that vim doesn't do the python help I like out of
    the box and requires about ~1 page of .vimrc, I'm very much now of the mantra "just use the tool how it comes by default", but vim doesn't do syntax checking of python code out of the box D: (or maybe it does, the
    most recenty version is very python integrated?) (i use 'pyflakes' for
    this, btw)

    I couldn't live without GUI. I get tired of command line interpretations. For BBS it's ok but when you have a program that needs like a lot of options and it
    can't be batched then it's a real hassle.

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to The Millionaire on Fri Aug 30 16:19:29 2013
    Re: Delightful window manager
    By: The Millionaire to Dingo on Thu Aug 29 2013 06:14 pm

    I couldn't live without GUI. I get tired of command line interpretations. For BBS it's ok but when you have a program that needs like a lot of options and it can't be batched then it's a real hassle.

    I fired up an Ubuntu server VM this week. I like being able to leave the window manager off, log into a bash prompt, and run startx to start a WM if I want it, and leave it at the command line otherwise.

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