> It is something that Debian made up. It sounds better than saying > "large set of heavy and bloated desktop programs". :-) I don't run a > desktop session like GNOME or KDE. Nor LXDE or XFCE either for that > matter. I, and you too apparently, only run the X window system with > a simple window manager.
Hi Bob, You bring up an interesting point. I am running XFCE, and that is because the limited amount of research I did into window managers told me it was the simplest "complete" solution, and I did not have time to learn how to configure a simple system. As a DBA, the only use I have ever had for a GUI was creating an XP VM to load MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser on, way back when I was studying for the certs. I do everything else in a CLI, either a real terminal (if that is the correct term for TTYs), or an XTerm (Terminal in XFCE). When I came on board here everyone was using phpmyadmin and phppgadmin. I gave up on both of those after about five minutes and went back to mysql and psql. I have never installed a GUI on a Linux server, and I even do Microsoft through a command prompt more often than not. That being said, my current position involves supporting a Drupal driven front-end to my DB backends, as well as custom PHP/Javascript pages, so I have no choice but to run a GUI of some type. I would like to learn to do so with a minimal footprint if you would be willing to share some tips. I find my primary use of the GUI is email, the web apps I have to support, and Guayadeque for my classical music fixes. I know there are text based versions of all, and I use Lynx quite extensively and Alpine to a lesser degree (everyone is into "multimedia" email these days *sigh*). Other than those, all I really need is dual monitors so I can update things in Terminal and refresh the page in the web browser, and a locking screen saver, for which xscreensaver works just fine. In fact I wouldn't mind just having TTY1 on one monitor and the GUI on the other if that is possible. So, if you don't mind, what do you use, and how much time is involved in setting it up? Thanks, Nelson -- 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/bay160-w10178b02b69677464786a6ad...@phx.gbl