From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as the desktop? Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:15:58 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87fylyoz35.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> References: <1141324201.426797.258020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141505085 13760 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2006 20:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 04 21:44:42 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 1FFdc8-0000Fd-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:44:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFdcC-0006MW-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFbP5-0001jO-Uh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFbOx-0001b5-Rp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFbOw-0001aQ-SC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:22:46 -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 1FFbQr-0003P5-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FFbOf-0005tW-WD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:22:30 +0100 Original-Received: from e178048046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.48.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:22:29 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178048046.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:22:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178048046.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MEZZN4XziMC2kGwqnrOztZU2qFg= 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:33539 Archived-At: On 2 Mar 2006 10:30:01 -0800 gamename wrote: > 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? Maybe not exactly what you wanted to know, but i find tiling window managers like ratpoison or ion very convenient. David