Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote:
>
> Just more simple questions I can't find straight answers to
> 2) XFree86, WINE, KDE are different "platforms" of X? You just pick and
> install ONE and go on to install other applications? Suggestions of the
> preferred X platform welcomed too.
>
> TIA
> Shaggy
> Bangkok, Thailand
Hi Shaggy,
Here's the way I understand it:
Xfree86 is a free (sic!) graphics server that runs on your Linux system,
and if configured properly for your graphics card, provides graphics
functions to other programs.
KDE is a complete desktop environment, a window manager plus lots of
applications that interact (e.g. copy and paste).
By X platforms you seem to mean window managers, programs that determine
how your windows look, what buttons you haveand so on. I prefer KDE
(which as mentioned above is much more than a window manager), but
recently tried Windowmaker. It looked very "different" and (therefore ?)
attractive.
BTW, that brings up a question of my own: I recently read that KDE and
Windowmaker can be combined on the desktop. How is that done, and can I
keep my KDE taskbar and menues?
Finally, WINE is a Windows emulator that allows one to run (some)
M$Windows programs under Linux.
As usual, "nur meine zwei Groschen wert..."
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