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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:50:43 +0000
From:      setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <20011120225043.GC82211@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <00c801c17205$1175f2b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:50:57PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ceri writes:
> 
> > I refute your assumption that a system that
> > doesn't run Windows applications is useless.
> 
> If you can get by without any Windows applications, your refutation is valid.
> But most people need to run at least a few Windows applications, unless they
> have Macs (which have a large enough choice of applications to avoid Windows
> entirely and still get lots of things done).

Yet another assumption.
I personally don't _need_ any Windows applications at all.
I do keep a Windows system in the house so I can play Giants, and I do like
using Free Agent to read news, but I run that under Wine on FreeBSD.

> > There you go again.
> > Window Managers Do Not Run Applications.
> > All you need is an X server to run Netscape.
> 
> Maybe I'm confused.  How do you run an X server or an application within it
> without a window manager?

It's easy.
I believe it was Kris who pointed out how to do it somewhere else in this
thread.
All you lose is the ability to resize and move the window.

Ceri

-- 
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