Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl):

> It's only a Recommends, but if it's unsatisfied, you can't shutdown,
> suspend, or, as the original poster wants, mount removable filesystems
> from the GUI.

Running the commands to do these things in an xterm makes them
graphical, right?  ;->

(Good point, and thank you.)[1]

> As for WindowMaker, I used to swear by it around 1998 -- but it doesn't seem
> as if it has any improvements since.  Which, unlike some folks here, I don't
> mean as a compliment.

Works well _and_ consistent over time!  ;->

(Taste in such things is obviously individual.)

[1] Quickest way to do an orderly shutdown from local console, in my
own view:  Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-Del, turn power off when it starts to POST.
Much less trouble than mousing around.

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