> One final question:  Window managers can be a drag on machines intended primarily as compute engines - so I am tempted leave them out - but sometimes I  get advice on problem solving that assumes GUI tools are available.  Do you think iceWM is a good solution to this dilemma?

I have a lot of servers that I don't even install X windows on, much
less a window manager. On those rare occasions when I need to run a
GUI tool on them, I ssh -X into the server from my workstation
(creating tunnel for X) and display on my workstation.

You just need the xorg-x11-xauth package for this to work, and this
does require some bandwidth...

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