Phillip Jones: >Hartmut Figge wrote: >> I don't have a desktop *g*. > >Yes you do the screen you see when you open your computer after it boots >up is called the desktop on Macintosh computers. Other computer users, >using Windows Machines may also call it the Desktop as well. Unix and >Linux don't have this unless they have some type of GUI installed.
Even then, without a desktop system like KDE, Gnome or XFCE there is no desktop. Sure, there is a background, but it is impossible to e.g. put icons on it. But i'm happy with my icewm. > if they go bare - naked (no GUI) they use the same old command line > system That Widows machines used back in DOS 3.1 days. The console is the default what i see after booting. Normally i would then start X with, surprisingly, startx. *g* >I know about this because I worked as Electronics Tech for school system >back during them days. And when you boot a Mac into single user mode. >You are using Raw Unix which looks and , you have to type commands >almost identically the same way. I don't know anything about a Mac. I had set my old Win98SE to boot into pure DOS from which i could call Windows with the command win. Hartmut _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
