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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
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> Sometime on Jul 2, Rajen Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:
>
> > Anybody tried xfce? Claims to be light weight and fast. Installed it and
> > GNOME. Also, xfce starts quite fast then GNOME/KDE. But personally I feel
> > that so far nobody beats WindowMaker for its looks.
>
> I'm a little confused. Is xfce a desktop environment or a window manager?
> You've compared it to GNOME and KDE that are desktop environments and to
> WindowMaker that's a window manager. Where does xfce stand?
xfce is Desktop environment. xfwm is its window manager. But surprisingly
xfwm starts xfce. Shouldn't it be the other way around? As in GNOME starts
Enlightenment and not the vice-versa. Seems xfce & xfwm are integrated and
are supposed to work that way.
Rajen.
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