Re: Re: desktop enviornment
By: Nightfox to Access Denied on Mon Aug 12 2013 06:49 pm
Ni> I think the GUI tools work just fine. And in the *nix spirit of using and
Ni> building on top of existing tools, I wouldn't be surprised if the GUI
Ni> tools are actually calling the command-line tools behind the scenes.
Ni> They'd have to work the same way at any rate.
Yeah, they definitely work fine. I just enjoy watching things happen on the
command line. You get more specific readouts and if there are any errors, the
command line shows exactly what they are.
Ni> Back when I started seriously using Linux around 12 years ago, I would
Ni> fiddle with the command-line configuration tools for quite a while but
Ni> didn't have much luck getting things to work. Getting XFree to work was
Ni> particularly bad - I'd often have a hard time getting the graphics to work
Ni> properly, and when it did, it would still not be centered properly or
Ni> wouldn't work at the highest resolution supported by my hardware, etc..
Ni> SuSE was the first distro I used where I was able to get XFree to work
Ni> properly, due to the configuration tools provided by SuSE. I think things
Ni> have gotten better since then though, as it's a lot easier to get things
Ni> working in Linux these days.
Definitely easier these days. I had the same issues trying to get XFree and
Xorg to work back in the day. Most of the time the Xorg script to do it for you
never worked, so it was all manual configuration. That took entirely too much
time, but I guess at least I learned something at that point. Now I'd rather
have it easy. If I do want a GUI desktop, I will install something easier that
would do most of it for you. I won't dig deep into setting up X anymore. lol
But yeah, if I'm not using Linux in console-only (which is what I usually do),
I usually don't manually install Xorg itself, configure it, and install a
desktop on top of it anymore when you have distros that do all that crap for
you.
I think by now I can say I've used it long enough to bypass all that crap and
just get the job done. :)
Regards,
Nick
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