From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as the desktop? Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:21:53 +0100 Message-ID: <8764mu5rj2.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <1141324201.426797.258020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141480533 2337 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2006 13:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gamename Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 04 14:55:32 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 1FFXEH-0001Zi-B8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:55:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFXEK-00051y-Py for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFVod-0001T8-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFVoZ-0001QX-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFVoY-0001QL-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FFVqG-0006WV-2h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FFVm3-0006sZ-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from p54a703d9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.167.3.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from dieter by p54a703d9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:22:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a703d9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vN0ifCMnM6zCXPEBYTq3qap2t/w= 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:33533 Archived-At: "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 voilà your Emacs-window-manager 8-). -- Best wishes Dieter Wilhelm