On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote:
>
> I have RedHat8.0 ('tho I see that this distro is not liked! :-|).
> I'll try a few GUI install choices and what I can learn.
>
> Although I am still confused about who is doing what,
> with which, and to whom.
>
> IOW, I do not understand the difference among:
> Xwindows, Gnome, & Sawfish.
>
> To me, windows is windows, windows is what a GUI application needs
> for I/O; a text console is what a text console application needs.
> Sawfish, twm, Gnome, KDE, fvwm, fvwm95, are meaningless to me.
> I don't see the difference. :-|
> Why cannot any GUI application run on any 'window'?
> Why is not Xwindows a 'window manager'?
> Why is not fvwm a 'Xwindow'?
>
I'm kind of confused on these fundamental matters, too, though posts on
this thread have been helping clarify things, or maybe just helping me to
ask the right questions. The right questions being, in my mind:
1) what is "X" or "xwindows"? (be sure to address in your answer the
relation of this entity to 2 other entities with which it can be easily
confused - namely a "window manager" and a "desktop.")
2) what is a window manager? (be sure to address in your answer the
relation of this entity to 2 other entities with which it can be easily
confused - namely "X" or "xwindows" and a "desktop.")
3) what is a "desktop"? (be sure to address in your answer the relation of
this entity to 2 other entities with which it can be easily confused -
namely "X" or "xwindows" and a "window mananger.")
Anyone care to take a crack at these?
James
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