Semi-transparent box on desktop

[Tom Holroyd]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:25 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> I thought this  post was a joke too.  No offense but i did not think
> there was anyone using a computer today that didn't know you could
> grab multiple objects like that, i am glad everyone is so thrilled , a
> rare enough occurrence around here, but this is pretty basic
> functionality. I would never have guessed it would cause so much
> excitement.

There was a post the other day about accidental rebooting which was
obviously a joke, but it seems people didn't get it. It's hard to tell
in email if you are joking (that's why we use smilies).

If you grew up using the command line like I did the desktop is more of
an annoyance. A guy once looked at my screen and said, "it doesn't look
like you are using a window manager at all! Is that just bare X?"

I like to right click to open up the app menu and select "terminal," but
that's about it. Oh and the workspace pager obviously. And the clock.
-- 
Dr. Tom Holroyd
The 9th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."