[BUGS] x11 & window managers & admin tools

[jonathan michaels]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:23:59AM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I haven't actually used any x11 desktop in forever, the last thing I  
> used
> was KDE and it was a little buggy and sort of seemed like it was trying
> to be windows..
> 
> To be honest I don't really LIKE x11 very much..
> 
> So I'm not much help with configuring it!
> 
> But I wanted to add to this question, along the lines of what window  
> manager,
> desktop combination is easy to use and set up? And what if any admin  
> tools
> exist with some sort of x11 GUI front-end? Can you actually admin a  
> system
> through GUI?
> 
> The main reason behind this question is giving windows admins a fighting
> chance to fix a FreeBSD server I'v set up when/if they can't get me  
> quickly
> enough. They aren't stupid, just allergic to shell interfaces, if  
> they had a GUI
> I'm sure they could figure it out, maybe, ish..
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try webmin .. it has helped me int he past

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