Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 17 16:28:33 UTC 2012
In message <CAGsORuB4yd8RKNLRWmcTx16iDOHWJkD1rnyArb98NwN+pwvPHA at mail.gmail.com>
, Zhihao Yuan writes:
>On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> My suggest was 100% serious: Assume X11 _is_ the graphical
>> environment, pick a toolkit which is written to work with
>> any window manager, which all good toolkits are, and move on.
>
>You can "assume", but you can't deny that X11 is not GUI at all, and
>twm is not a modern GUI either.
You are confusing "window manager" and "graphical user interface",
one is layered on the other, your homework is to figure out which.
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