Thanks for the helpful tips Davide. JBanks --- Davide Brini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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