From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 03:06:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CB9106564A for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:06:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nealhogan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79CD8FC12 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so2925310wwc.31 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:06:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Iuz5YniB85IARKXM2+q17L7ZAtX02uybN4JojeeYhcY=; b=fn2Ji2DbiSW3+Y6zwpSvPemAUztMiysDU3sH70oVbG5CjTl/5pV2ojKkLyeVG9HDVr CyttS+8u6VLgcbG6Q7O2S7k2LY7BkIa2irAc+eskLLqggD/nPHKfSJUDgjRpI+2+RarG vdpChbR/uvzaCwu7Y3RKSNXglddqAV5j60MzE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=brBL9T8m+5NVxQrpVaNGazXaA1Edxn3JCZxm8daAw2HbGMpDd2K/QECXIcV5GRJveC VPJyNLJ6m0QKPbEKdwDHD7j1WAJdfl3OJSfhd/EyhgUFipFgBUV6JgzrR5xLgP0beNsP RaqyHKQjPeH58Jnt7no8hbV8qzkaNVE0y69hs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.13.17 with SMTP id a17mr8979604wea.46.1285297574549; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.3.136 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:06:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100924024856.GB19697@guilt.hydra> References: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx> <20100923152023.GA14903@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100924003120.GA19235@guilt.hydra> <4C9BF868.9000805@gmail.com> <20100924024856.GB19697@guilt.hydra> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:06:14 -0500 Message-ID: From: Neal Hogan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: GUI Suggested? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:06:16 -0000 On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber w= rote: >> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >>> >> >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, >> >>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and >> >>> vim-like (among other things ;-). >> >> >> >> Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotwm >> >> developer(s)? =A0Earlier today, I read this on the site: >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 "On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings an= d >> >> =A0 =A0 xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C." >> >> >> >> hahahahahahaha! >> >> >> What's up with that? =A0How does Haskell "cripple" xmonad? >> >> >> >> In the end, you need not take yourself so seriously. =A0The thread was >> generic enough to allow for some rhetorical flourish. I suggested >> something . . . pointed out that is written in C (as did the homepage) >> . . . =A0AND you concluded some sort of insult; not my problem. >> >> Do you need a rim-shot for every joke? > > 1. Who said I took insult? =A0You assume too much. > > 2. That was not a very clever joke, anyway. =A0Where's the punchline? > > 3. That doesn't answer my question about the Scrotwm page. > > Even *I* am not so socially stunted as to think a comment like that on > the Scrotwm site would not raise some eyebrows. > Some? sure. In the end, scrotwm is a simple wm that allows the "gui-apprehensive-type" folk a nice CLI in X. That's all I was suggesting. "Shave and a haircut" . . . Chad?