On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 05:08:10PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > > > On 04/23/2016 04:20 PM, aitor_czr wrote: > > > >On 04/22/2016 11:17 AM, KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote: > >>In my opinion there's no magic line where things on one side are window > >>>managers and things on the other side are desktop environments. I think > >>>we can all agree that Unity, KDE and Gnome are desktop environments, > >>>and dwm and i3 are window managers, but what's Xfce? What's LXDE? > >>>What's Openbox? > >>> > >>>I think of de/wm as a spectrum, not a 1/0. > > > >I agree with you, there is not a borderline. > > It doesn't matter how much you agree on an opinion. That will not > make it fact. There is a technical difference between the two. Just > look up the definition of "window manager" and "desktop environment" > on any techsite/dictionary/encyclopedia. Unless you are trying to > sound ignorant, it would make sense to use the correct terminology.
Isn't a window manager the thing that intercepts your normal, everyday communication between an X client and an X server and acts as a man-in-the-middle to provide you with window borders, motility, and the like? The thing that could even be running on a different machine from either the client of the server? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
