"Bernard Helyer" <b.hel...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:evddvsmtlbhryrigg...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 11:15:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> [1] I don't even know what the fuck to call any of them anymore. "Window >> manager", "Desktop Environment", "Shell", "Compositor", and if I'm not >> mistaken there's even some damn hybrids or some such, and some can be >> used together, some can't, bleh. > > A window manager handles window bar controls, positions of new windows, > and the like. A shell is merely a term for something that allows input to > the OS. A compositor takes the pixels pushed by other parts of the stack > and applies GL magic to them. A Desktop Environment takes several of the > above and packs them together in a single environment to create something > (hopefully) cohesive. > >>They're all the same damn things as far as I can >> tell :/ > > That's because you don't know what you're talking about. :P >
When it comes to that stuff, I really don't!
