Re: Input methods (Emacs and others), plain X [was: Japanese input in Linux environment]

[tomas]

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:51:44PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> > Nearly [...]

> OK, Fvwm and Xfce. I use Openbox but the only
> thing I do with it is Alt-Tab between windows
> so I suppose I could do with whatever.

For me it does a bit more: hotkeys for Emacs client
windows for several purposes (one for taking quick notes),
for terminal, etc., several workspaces, battery state &
other small widgets, you name it.

> Actually if you have X and a WM the purpose of
> a "desktop" eludes me - why do you want it?

Well... horses for courses. All generalizations...
Some people like them. Why shouldn't they have
them? Myself, I have no use for a graphical file
manager. Others can't do without.

> To make everything have the same "look and
> feel"? But isn't that what the GFX programming
> library and WM do? I believe Gnome and KDE were
> efforts when the Mac and PC (Windows) were big
> on desktops - should be the Windows 95-era?
> People that came to Linux didn't recognize it
> to be a computer system and it made no sense to
> them. However to then bring over the desktop
> seems a bit illogical because don't people come
> to Linux because they don't like what they had
> before? Nowadays I suppose Gnome isn't even
> a DE anymore.

My significant one is a big GNU/Linux fan and uses
MATE. Choice is good :)

cheers
- -- t
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