Replying with my fluxbox hat on, and perhaps Debian too. On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:07:10PM -0500, Stephan Foley wrote: > > Why wasn't it enough to run these two commands? > > apt-get install xorg > > apt-get install fluxbox
Yeah, Fluxbox is still not that out of the box. It's always required a lot of fiddling to set up. Fluxbox has a lot of ups, but it also has some downs (it requires manual configuration and is very minimal) > grrrrrrr.... ^^^^^^^^ And this is why I don't tell people to "just" install Fluxbox. > Well, first off, I had to figure out the best display manager. Then, install > Fluxbox and you got some ugly styling! Then, I had to figure out how to > config all the gtk stuff and fonts, etc. Then, of course, no sound. And how > about auto mounting external drives, etc, etc! Or even just artwork for grub > and lightdm. > > Now I can install the whole thing in about 10 minutes, but it was quite a > chore to do it the first time...coming from a system like Crunchbang which > was configured with style and grace, I realized how much work when into > that. Well, patches to add some defaults in an external package is super welcome :) > On the other hand, Fluxbox really is just a windows manager and it needs a > ton of helper packages...nothing like Gnome or KDE. That's right. Cheers, Paul
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