"Adrian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a bit ago someone said
>
> "If you choose to use the Sawfish Window Mamanger (which has
> replaced Enlightenment as GNOME's default WM), then you may want to fiddle
> around with the settings to get it working the way you want it."
>
> now, i'm confussed about something here.... i was thinking that
Enlightenment and GNOME were both window managers.... seems i'm wrong.
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Gnome is a desktop environment, not a window manager. It should run ontop of
a window manager (like Sawfish or Enlightenment - or Windowmaker or FVWM
or.....) ideally. Right now Sawfish is the default. Not too long ago
Enlgihtenment had been the default. KDE is also a desktop environment, but it
comes with its own window manager KWM by default. You could substitute a
different wm for KDE, but typically it runs best on KWM I believe.
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>
> so am i right that either KDE or GNOME is running under Enlightenment (which
is what i am currently using in Mandrake 7.1). so the question is, how do i
know which is running, how do i change, and what differences does it make??
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In the Gnome setup or manager (I forget what it's called. I'm in Blackbox
just now) choose window manager, and you'll see a short list of window
managers with one chosen as "(current)". That's the one you're utilizing at
the moment, but you could chose another.
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> thanks much...
> oh, ps -- if i use the most recent "red hat linux for dummies" book (they
have it at the library) this would be mostly true for mandrake linux, am i
right??\\
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Probably close enough ;o)
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>
> thanks again
>
> adrian
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Mike
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