Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> writes:
> <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.
They also use various components that are implemented as, or call, shell
scripts supplied upstream. Starting Firefox, for example, is typically done
through an upstream 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".
*nod* The final complexity, to which I referred elsewhere in this thread, is
that shells are used to tie together other components in a simple programming
system, either interactively or in a batch mode.
Regards,
Daniel
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