Hi,
I don't really understand what you mean. SDDM, lightDM etc are 'Display
Managers'. KDE, Gnome, XFCE4 etc. are 'Desktop Environments' and within
a Desktop Environment is a Window Manager. For KDE it's Kwin, for XFCE4
it's xfwm and so on. Enlightenment is not exactly a complete Desktop
Environment it's pretty close but I'd say it's a fully loaded Window
Manager with Desktop aspirations...lol. Then going down the scale from
there are things like Openbox, Fluxbox, and numerous others which are
essentially Window Managers that require 3rd party components to
complete them sufficiently to fully run a system. There is also the
option to mix and match, as an example LXQt can be used with Openbox,
xfwm or Kwin and XFCE4 can be used with Openbox but it is not very
straightforward to use Enlightenment as an optional Window Manager with
other Desktop Environments in my experience anyway..
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On 2025-08-27 20:21, dep wrote:
I realize that the terminology is tangled, with confusion between the
window manager that we usually see directly only in the login screen
-- sddm and the like -- and the windowing desktop managers -- gnome,
kde, etc. -- but I'm asking about the former: does Enlightenment have
its own window manager, that can be installed and used instead of one
of the others?
dep
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