Hi, a window manager is a program the handles the windows displacement, movement, maximized/minimized states, focus and all that. Yes, it's required :).
A display manager is a program that handles (for the sake of simplicity) the graphical login process. It initiates X and runs the selected Desktop Environment's startup script. You don't need that. You can place a call to your derired startup script in ~/.xinitrc and just run startx after a text-based login. Openbox is a window manager. You can, of course, use another one, like xfwm4 or KWin. LightDM is a display manager, just like SDDM and GDM. I hope I have helped. Paulo Lieuthier On Tuesday, June 02, 2015 05:47:02 PM U.Mutlu wrote: > Gerd Hafenbrack wrote on 06/02/2015 05:41 PM: > > Hi, > > > > openbox is a *window* manager. > > Sorry for my ignorance, I've not much experience with that graphics stuff, > but what does that mean effectively? Are both a window manager and a display > manager required? > > > On 2015-06-02 17:34, U.Mutlu wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I wonder why in my Debian 8 (jessie) there has been installed > >> two display managers, namely openbox and lightdm. > >> I tried to remove one of these packages but there are dependencies > >> with LXDE: > >> > >> aptitude remove openbox says: > >> lxde-core : Depends: openbox > >> > >> aptitude remove lightdm says: > >> task-lxde-desktop : Depends: lightdm > >> > >> Does one really need these two display managers for LXDE ? > >> > >> And: does LXDE require a specific display manager? > >> (I mean there are some more display managers around, can they not be used > >> with LXDE?) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
