On 04/26/2018 09:45 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM) you're
using (which is *not* the same as the Desktop Environment).
Wikipedia seems to conflate them. Got a link to something better?
And where do window managers come into all this? Is that just an already
obsolete term of art, or are they a third thing?
DM generally refers to the *Display* Manger. That's the application
that on a graphical system shows up first. (e.g. gdm, lightdm, lxdm)
It's what lets you select the user and desktop session type you want to
use. The Desktop Environment is a term for things like Gnome, KDE, LXDE
that are a mostly complete package with a window manager, panels,
applications, etc. that all work together. The Window Manager is not
something often used by itself now, although some people still do like
them. They are the applications that just manage the handling of X
windows, moving them around, resizing, closing. For example: openbox,
WindowMaker, awesome. Some of those are still part of a larger
ecosystem, but generally not considered a full desktop environment. Run
'dnf search "window manager"' for a long list of options.
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