On Monday 13 October 2003 12:26, Joshua Banks wrote: > My question is: > > What specifically is the difference between WindowMangers and Desktops? > When I go here, http://xwinman.org/index.html they're listed as two > separate entities. I've always thought of these as one in the same.
Not-too-specific answer: Desktop managers are more Windoze-like, meaning that they tend to be more complete and control many parts of the graphic enviroment. A desktop environment has its own window manager. Furthermore, DEs often provide a lot of complementary software and utilities, whereas window managers are more "bare bone", ie, they only give you the basic tools to work (panel, desktop and little more). Some say that WMs give you more freedom, but that's a matter of personal taste. > The reason that I'm asking this is because I would like to load XFce, > Gnome, desktops and have the abliity to choose which desktop that I use > when I get my LOGIN promtp with KDM. > > If I load XFce and Gnome will these automatically show up listed in KDM as > a choose to login to? Or do I need to do anything to "/etc/rc.conf" I don't think it will work that way. Maybe you can emerge selectwm. The page for the project is: http://ordiluc.net/selectwm look there before trying it. I've used it and it works fine: I had gnome, kde, icewm, windowmaker, fvwm2 and blackbox at the same time (wasting a lot of disk space, though :). NOTE: I don't use graphical login (KDM, GDM and similar), so I don't know if selectwm works fine in that situation. Bye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
