On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, John Cowan wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 9:40 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> We just wanted to be able to have multiple xterms
>> and Emacs windows.
>
> In fact that's pretty much what I do to this day: I do everything in
> terminals and do browsing etc. elsewhere.

I always keep at least one xterm (actually mate-terminal) open and do a 
lot of my work from it.  When I run GUI apps, they're almost always 
maximized on either one or the other of my two displays (exception for 
emulators, sometimes).  I have the desktop icons completely disabled.

-uso.