On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:42:50PM +0100, phi debian wrote: > The thing about gnome (I coulfd have a minimal wm otherwise) is that I > depend (depended?) on having a lot of click click prog, because I am a > newbee, I can resize some disc partition with gparted, I can't with parted, > well I can but got to read all this optins and stuf, gparted drag parttion > and you are set. > You can still use gparted with a window manager. You can use any program you want. What you primarily miss out on when using a window manager instead of a desktop environment are:
1) drag-and-drop capability between windows (but not always) 2) applications that all look the same in terms of decorations, style, etc. 3) lots of things happening automatically for you (for instance, in a wm you will need to tell it to load the network manager applet because it won't happen automatically) 4) icons on the desktop. This can be done, but it requires configuration of software to handle it (which is done automatically in a desktop environment) 5) right-click functionality, such as right-click on the desktop to change your wallpaper I don't miss any of that stuff... -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121214182837.ga12...@aurora.owens.net
