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From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Subject: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:40:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170315164006.GC26286@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH1jEzaKhLTDgvKSUxdfPATzBZ05_a88b1y8cQNgSMbm6VVEPA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:12:12AM +1100, Nick Downing wrote:
> Hmm well that DOES sound a bit patronizing, no offence taken though, I
> think it's more that I almost never use graphical tools, well at least not
> for any sysadmin or development type work. In the last day I ran chromium
> browser, xviewer (AKA eye of gnome), xreader (AKA evince), the gimp,
> libreoffice writer, and (currently) mplayer... these are all exclusively
> because I HAD to work with an inherently graphical resource, so there was
> no reasonable alternative but to run those programs. For anything else I
> would use the command line (occasionally I do DSP type stuff with
> matplotlib or gamey type stuff with pygame I guess). I can't honestly see a
> use case where I would ever want to run any of those programs on a server,


Your usage habits are not natural laws.  I'm a systems administrator
too, and I use X11 forwarding every single day, on dozens of different
programs.  

It's all very well for X11's networking tools to be useless for you.
That doesn't make them useless in general, and it doesn't mean the
functionality should be deleted.

khm


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15 16:40 UTC|newest]

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2017-03-14 18:49 Ron Natalie
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2017-03-15  1:13                             ` Nick Downing
2017-03-15 10:15                               ` Tim Bradshaw
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2017-03-15 11:03                                     ` Nick Downing
2017-03-15 12:03                                       ` tfb
2017-03-15 13:12                                         ` Nick Downing
2017-03-15 14:37                                           ` tfb
2017-03-15 16:40                                           ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2017-03-15 16:52                                             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16 23:04                                             ` Josh Good
2017-03-16 23:29                                               ` Robert Swierczek
2017-03-17  1:15                                                 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-16 23:29                                               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-17  0:05                                                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-17  5:55                                                 ` arnold
2017-03-17 12:56                                                 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-17 15:19                                                 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-17 20:17                                                   ` Josh Good
2017-03-17 20:30                                                     ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-17 20:44                                                       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-17 21:08                                                         ` Dan Cross
2017-03-17 22:50                                                           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-17 22:58                                                             ` Dan Cross
2017-03-17 23:17                                                               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-17 23:22                                                                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-18 15:45                                                                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-18 16:59                                                                   ` Andy Kosela
2017-03-18 23:05                                                                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-18 23:32                                                                       ` Nick Downing
2017-03-19  7:20                                                                         ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-17  0:13                                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-17  3:16                                                 ` jsteve
2017-03-23 19:16                                                   ` Michael Parson
2017-03-17 12:39                                                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-17 12:45                                                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-17 16:49                                                   ` Tony Finch
2017-03-18 15:43                                                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-17 14:39                                                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-17 16:21                                                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-17 16:29                                                     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-17 17:42                                                     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-17 21:39                                                     ` [TUHS] X->VNC->RDP experience [was " Charles H Sauer
2017-03-19  6:11                                               ` [TUHS] " Robert Brockway
2017-03-19 11:56                                                 ` Josh Good
2017-03-15 20:48                               ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-17 13:05 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-17 15:06 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-17 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-17 17:56 ` Ron Natalie

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