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From: chan@hpfcmp.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS and X
Message-ID: <5230001@hpfcmp.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 18:54:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 18:54:40 1987
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> but can X do anything with just the mouse?
> 
> NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!  You gotta drive the damn thing with
> BOTH HANDS!! One playing the mouse, and the other 
> playin chords on the damn control-shift-meta-cokebottle
> keys!!  Jeeeeeezzzz!! What a complete crock of flaming
> feces!!  I have never seen anything as user fiendly
> as that.  It simply sucks molten lava.

You obviously know not that which you flame so vehemently. X itself
does not dictate any particular human interface (window manager in
the X parlance). Users are free to write their own. If you're so hot
on the Mac interface, you can write a similar one that will work on
an X system. Someone's probably writing one right now. Most X distributions
include several window managers, one of which is uwm, probably the one
you are flaming. And believe it or not, you *can* easily set up your
.uwmrc file to let you manipulate windows without having to use keyboard
shift keys.

Why don't you take some time to learn about things before you splash
your ignorant ravings on the net.

			-- Chan Benson
			Hewlett-Packard 
			Fort Collins, CO
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