Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop

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Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 16, 2002 @03:16AM from the your-brain-is-your-panel dept.

Espectr0 writes "Hate window managers? Cannot live without one? Well, you can, kind of. A Freshmeat editorial called 'The Antidesktop' talks about how you can get rid of flashy, bloaty window managers without loosing functionality." It depends on how many tasks you want to keep track of in your head, too.

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Re:loose versus lose by psxndc · 2002-10-16 03:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

AGGGGHHHH! Where did this come from?? This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can deal with "learn" you a lesson. I can deal with "so don't I". The preceding is just ignorance as to what is porper English. I cannot deal with people "loosing" the spelling of "lose". I had never heard/seen this until about a year ago and now everyone seems to forget how to spell "lose". Where did this come from?
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way OT, but Karma is cheap by slow_flight · 2002-10-16 03:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Another very common one is 'moot' vs. 'mute.'

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1. Re:way OT, but Karma is cheap by Neon+Spiral+Injector · 2002-10-16 03:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  And effected and affected.
2. Re:way OT, but Karma is cheap by sqlrob · 2002-10-16 03:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  moot is correct.
  
  moot = not relevant any longer
  mute = quiet, unable to make sound
3. Re:way OT, but Karma is cheap by Verteiron · 2002-10-16 03:56 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  That is a pun or play on words, and you should be sentenced to public flogging for that. Mute point.. arggg...
  
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where my ass is hat by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 03:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

you face my seat.
Re:loose versus lose by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 03:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

don't worry,

Americans cannot speak or write English either.
Apparently not just for the *ix crowd... by theendlessnow · 2002-10-16 06:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Looks like the boyz from Redmond know a good thing when they see it!! (okay... it's not exactly the same thing... )
http://24.42.144.161/tsnet/dos.htm
Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-16 06:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Keep it up. These are golden. I hope somebody's archiving all of the ways that Stephen King has died.
Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 by Stephen+King · 2002-10-16 06:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No, I'm not.

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Re:Window Manager without the bloat (PDF based!!!) by ichimunki · 2002-10-16 08:38 · Score: 1, Offtopic

No, thank you!

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Re:We need a good alternative to XFree86 by SCHecklerX · 2002-10-16 08:54 · Score: 1, Offtopic

How do you explain 60+fps in quake3 on my Athlon at home then? KDE/Gnome == bloat. Windowmaker, otoh, is very snappy. Need drag/drop filemanager? Try out Rox-Filer. There is no reason for crap like nautilus to even exist. It's bloated useless crap.
Re:Window Manager without the bloat (PDF based!!!) by toupsie · 2002-10-16 09:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic

No, thank you!
You're welcome!

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