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Re: getting the most out of TWM

From Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: getting the most out of TWM
Date 2024-07-22 18:13 -0300
Organization Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
Message-ID <871q3lf7up.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink)
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The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/17/24 12:14 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> That was with a system configured to use startx from the command line,
>> not a GUI X login at boot.  That may make a difference -- I've never
>> done it that way except on Unix machines which someone else maintained.
> 
> I've done it that way since 1995.  My experience with Windows indicated 
> that you should ALWAYS have a command line so you can fix whatever shit 
> the GUI is spewing.

Yeah, agree fully.

Just to be clear on "that way", it's the full-X, X-only logins I've
never done at home.  As a guest on the Athena system many years ago,
fixing a system problem was far out of my league and mentioning such a
problem could result in a hacker demigod or two lurking over my carrel,
asking to see it repeated.

>     Buckle Up. It makes it harder for the aliens
>     to suck you out of your car.

Nice one.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/wednesday-may-10th-roswell-trump

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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getting the most out of TWM Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2024-07-12 21:35 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-13 14:00 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-14 11:59 +0200
      Re: getting the most out of TWM candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-14 14:00 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-13 18:06 -0300
    Re: getting the most out of TWM arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) - 2024-07-14 03:12 +0000
      Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-14 02:39 -0300
        Re: getting the most out of TWM arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) - 2024-07-14 16:39 +0000
          Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-14 18:22 -0300
            Re: getting the most out of TWM Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-07-14 21:00 -0300
      Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-14 21:21 +0000
        Re: getting the most out of TWM Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-11-13 08:17 +0000
      xearth on xfce (was: Re: getting the most out of TWM) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-07-24 06:44 +0000
        Re: xearth on xfce (was: Re: getting the most out of TWM) Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2024-07-24 18:26 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-10-02 23:28 +0000
      Re: getting the most out of TWM John McCue <jmccue@neutron.jmcunx.com> - 2024-10-03 01:05 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM John McCue <jmccue@hairball.jmcunx.com> - 2024-07-14 14:51 +0000
  Re: getting the most out of TWM scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-07-15 20:52 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-15 21:57 +0000
      Re: getting the most out of TWM Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2024-07-15 20:34 -0400
        Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-16 01:16 +0000
          Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-17 04:14 -0300
            Re: getting the most out of TWM The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-07-21 15:11 -0700
              Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-21 23:50 +0000
                Re: getting the most out of TWM The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-07-22 20:52 -0700
                Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-23 04:34 +0000
                Re: getting the most out of TWM The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-07-24 15:05 -0700
                Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-25 00:02 +0000
                Re: getting the most out of TWM candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-26 16:40 +0000
              Re: getting the most out of TWM Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-07-22 18:13 -0300
  Re: getting the most out of TWM kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-07-17 14:50 +0000
    Re: getting the most out of TWM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-17 22:12 +0000

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