On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:53:10 +0100 Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 03:11:05PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >My thoughts exactly. I stopped using GNOME or any desktop > >environment 5+ years ago. Resource hogs.. A window manager, a > >single panel and a couple virtual terminals are more than sufficient. > > What's good enough for you is not necessarily good enough for > everyone else. I likewise am very comfortable in a Terminal, however, > many aren't. Furthermore, there are nowadays lots of other bits and > pieces that are very useful in a session (a dbus daemon, a GPG and > SSH keyrings, a power manager and/or screensaver, network manager > applets, file sync tools, disk mount managers, etc.); you may not > need these, or may be happy to effectively assemble a form of a > desktop environment from scratch, but some people are happy to > delegate that job to others. All that can be done on a window manager only system, too. Just install the utility needed, either terminal or X-based.. > (I am currently shopping for a desktop session manager) Sorry, I have no recommendations. Don't use one. ;-) B
