About "how the GUI should look like after installation!"

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:43:49 -0600
"illoai at gmail.com" <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss <elessar at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> 
> > > I logged in and typed
> > > 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!).
> > > Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand
> > > shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture
> > > (greying grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition image).
> > > There're just four squared box (shell).
> 
> > You need to install a window manager.
> 
> twm(1) idn't good enough for you?
> 
> evilwm
> blackbox
> e16 (or whatever they have changed the name too this week)
> aewm
> 
> are all fairly degenerate wastes of memory.
> 
> But it will not do much good unless you
> have also bothered to install browsers and such.

I overlooked the 'four squared boxes' part. Apart from that, he
obviously isn't pleased with the installed one. So, he should
install something else.

Which one is up to him, I won't recommend.

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