On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:36:52PM -0400, Mark Simos (MSimos@POBox.com) wrote: > Somewhat OT, but reasonably close to this posting.... > > Is there a doc somewhere that describes window managers, display > managers, etc. and how they interact with each other, X, and X > programs? I am windows person and not too familiar with the extra > layer of separation / interaction that X allows for in the GUI. I have > no problem doing the old fashioned RTFM, I just don't know which FM to > R :) There's the XWindow User HOWTO, try poking around in /usr/doc/HOWTO or http://www.linuxdoc.org/. This is a bit old-fashioned, but describes the fundamental layers of X to the windowmanager level. For an explanation of what Gnome and KDE do, I'd suggest visiting the appropriate websites: http://www.gnome.org/ and http://www.kde.org/. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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