From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gian Uberto Lauri Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as the desktop? Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:59:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1141567158.440aeeb6807a7@webmail.eng.it> References: <1141324201.426797.258020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <8764mu5rj2.fsf@hans.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141595746 18890 80.91.229.2 (5 Mar 2006 21:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gamename , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 22:55:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG1C0-0005bC-3Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:55:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG1C7-0002Wu-QH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFtlj-000739-L3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:59:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFtlg-0006hi-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:59:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFtlf-0006gA-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.101.90.2] (helo=mail.eng.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FFtnj-0004u7-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.eng.it (dioscuri-posta-gb [192.168.99.21]) by deliver.antivirus (Postfix) with SMTP id A14D618028; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 14:59:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (polluce-gb [192.168.99.18]) by mail.eng.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986A518027; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 14:59:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 62.101.90.3 ([62.101.90.3]) by webmail.eng.it (IMP) with HTTP for ; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:59:18 +0100 Original-To: Dieter Wilhelm In-Reply-To: <8764mu5rj2.fsf@hans.local.net> User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 62.101.90.3 X-PMX-Version: 5.1.2.240295 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=%%XGAUGE%%%%IGAUGE%%, Probability=%%PROB%%, Report='%%HITS%%' X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:54:55 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33550 Archived-At: Quoting Dieter Wilhelm : > "gamename" writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I normally run emacs inside a vnc session with "blackbox" and the > > desktop manager. Is there any way to simply use Emacs as the desktop > > manager instead? > > > > -T > > I probably don't understand your problem. But why not using Emacs > without X, just as a terminal application? When enlarging the > terminal to full-screen voil=C3 your Emacs-window-manager 8-). You lose some hundred possible colours for highlighting plus a set of ben= efits from being an X application. You can indeed drop the desktop manager, Emacs or (heresy) not Emacs, the= re's something called shell that does all a DM does plus more :) Emacs does all that a DM does and more too :) --=20 /\ ___ /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____ //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico \/ e coltivatore diretto di Software