From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 23:09:25 -0000 (UTC)   
   Jim Jackson  wrote:   
      
   > > Ah, the "odds & ends left lying around" class of problems. I've long   
   > > since taken to installing with no GUI components at all and then   
   > > adding what I want after the fact, for essentially that reason.   
   >   
   > Amen to that. My personal setup is lightdm, openbox, the venerable   
   > xterm, and lxpanel. Don't use a file manager, as I'm happy with the   
   > commandline. Most graphical apps work just install and work fine. But   
   > then I'm not too bothered by the "integration" fad (;-), and I've   
   > never really understood why all the extra cruft is necessary.   
      
   I'll take a file manager, myself; command-line is superior for anything   
   involving mass operations and pattern-matching, but a GUI (or TUI, if   
   you prefer one of the curses-based FMs) is easier for picking arbitrary   
   files out of a large set.   
      
   (Have actually spent the last week-plus doing both, as I finally got   
   around to a spring-clean on 10-12 years' worth of random downloads and   
   found myself sorting out images from countless artists with filenames   
   in several different formats, at least one of which preserved both case   
   and special characters early on, forced lower case at some point, and   
   then munged special characters later, and vgrepping to spot duplicates   
   along the way. Quite a workout, some ~45k files in total...)   
      
   Have been pretty settled on WindowMaker with SpaceFM and QTerminal for   
   some years now; used to use PCManFM and RoxTerm prior to that. Have   
   never understood the need for my media player to integrate with the   
   kitchen sink over dbus, frankly...   
      
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