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

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Koji Hayakawa
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> 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.
> > 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

Okay, so even I get confused sometimes. :-)

KDE is a desktop enviroment, but it's so closely tied to the k window manager
(kwm) that they seem to be one in the same.  Gnome can run on top of several
window manages, though I'm not sure which Distribution ships with what.  I
personally run Windowmaker without running KDE or GNOME most of the time.

--dwh

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