[linux-help] Window Manager / Desktop Environment (used to be Where's messages on Corel/Debian)

["Koji Hayakawa" <sylf00@xxxxxxxxx>]

WindowMaker runs by itself.  It's a windows manager, just like olwm,
Afterstep, fvwm, enlightenment, and blackbox.
CDE, KDE, and Gnome are desktop environment, and they cannot run by
themselves:  they need some window managers running behind them.
KDE seems a bit like window manager, just because it is so closely
integrated with their own window manager, kwm.
I hope that clarifies something.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Bruce Bales
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: Where's messages on Corel/Debian
>
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> Dale W Hodge wrote:
>
> As for KDE, it's a windowing manager, one of many.  As of version
> 2.x, Ithink
> KDE is a quite nice window enviroment, albeit a bit of a resource
> hog. If you
> could run Windows98, then you have enough hardware to run KDE
> 2.x.  I can show
> KDE to friends that know nothing about Linux, and they feel right
> home.  Lighter
> weight window managers like Windowmaker (my default manager) are much less
> intuitive. GNOME seems to be improving, but so far isn't in my
> top two choices.
>
> dwh
>
> Dale, I'm a little confused.  Aren't GNOME and KDE called desktops while
> windowmaker, enlightenment, sawfish, kwm, and ICE called window
> managers?  And
> don't these window managers run under (or on top of ) GNOME or KDE?
>
> If this is correct, what desktop do you use with windowmaker?
> Straighten me
> out.
>
> bruce
>
>
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