Re: Request for window manager recommendations
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> A window manager is a program that just "manages windows". It gives
> applications an area on the screen where they can be displayed and most
> often the WM draws a border around it, gives it a nice title and enables
> the user to do things with these windows - put one on the foreground,
> minimize another one etc.
>
> Very often window managers come with some kind of a panel, virtual
> desktop support and some kind of application launcher (a "start menu" or
> icons on the panel), but strictly speaking, this is exceeding the task
> of a minimal WM.
>
> Desktop environments (KDE, Gnome. Xfce) do far more than that. They come
> with a file manager, draw the background with pixmaps and icons, they do
> some work behind your back to easily handle removable storage or enable
> drag'n drop. They come with "control centers" to do system
> administration and generally give the user a simplified, cleaned up view
> on their system. Applications supporting the DE all look the same and
> share a lot of routines to do common tasks. DEs also provide
> applications with a way to register themselves for a filetype which they
> can handle, which is then reflected when using the DE's file manager and
> so on... Of course, this list is not complete.
Interesting, thanks.
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