From: Ronan Waide (waider at domain waider.ie)
Date: Wed 10 Jul 2002 - 23:51:03 IST
On July 10, kevin at domain linux.ie said:
> in general that's my biggest x gripe. the little tools that seem to
> reek, "hi! how are ya! i'm just a proof of concept thing that the
> developers threw together while they worked on the really fscking hard
> core of the x server. some application developer can get cracking on
> the x config tools."
You really need to read the Unix-Hater's handbook.
"X was designed to run three programs: xterm, xload, and xclock.
[-]
Ten years later, most computers running X run just four programs:
xterm, xload, xclock and a window manager."
Of course, that was in 1994. Things have improved dramatically since
then; I'm running xterm, xdaliclock, a window manager, and a web
browser, for example.
Waider.
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