<quote who="Marghanita da Cruz"> > I am trying to figure out where Bash etc fits into Linux. Does Gnome/KDE > run in a Bash shell?
They are forked from a shell, mostly because startup scripts are all shell scripts. GDM (which in turn starts X) is spawned from a shell script. On pretty much every Linux distro, when you log in or run a terminal, you are typing commands into a bash shell (which you can swap for something else if you're that way inclined, but most folks use bash). The word shell sometimes refers to any kind of parent or launcher process, so that's where you might hear people refer to GNOME, KDE, progman.exe (on Windows) or dosshell.exe (aptly named) as "shells". - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.lca2010.org.nz/ "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
