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> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 3:21 PM
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> Subject: [newbie] Difference between Desktop
> Environment/Window Manager
>
>
> What is the difference between a Window Manager, such as
> BlackBox, and a
> Desktop environment? They seem to perform similar functions. The
> differerence I've came up wtih is that the environments let
> one save things
> on the desktop, and provide for graphical customization of
> it, whereas there
> aren't many extras in Window Managers, although they seem to
> start and
> shutdown somewhat faster. Is that the only thing?
>
A Desktop environment, such as kde or gnome, is shells which
operates on top of a Window manager.
A Window manager, such as sawfish-WM-Enlight-etc, is a base program
which supplies the GUI interface for X.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
