can somebody please explain the relationship between desktop, window-manager, filemanager, X etc? i jus' don' get it. i want to cut down the amount of resource my given to gui, people keep saying sawmill is small, enlightenment is this, kde is that, but i don't know what all the bits are. cheers Dominic ---------------------------------------------- I used to be an advocate of Anything But Microsoft until I discovered Debian GNU/Linux.