On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Brad Beyenhof as of Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:25:02PM -0700: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:08 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > For which window-managers? > > > > Again with the window-managers, about which I'm still ignorant... and > > undesirably so. Please enlighten me. I've never explicitly installed a > > window manager other than the default on any of my currently-running > > distros. I understand that the DE and the WM are separate, but the > > extent of that separation remains a mystery to me. > > I don't use a DE, so I'm just as ignorant of the separation, but from > the other direction.
Well, apparently a DE is just a collection of tools (window manager, file browser, terminal, etc.) all using the same libraries to conserve memory. After looking around a bit, I find this Wikipedia article comparing DEs to put it most succintly: http://en.wikipedia.decenturl.com/x-window-system -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. ~ Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- ) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
