Re: What's the difference between a display manager and a window manager?

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Subject: Re: What's the difference between a display manager and a window manager?
From: Misko <adatrg-mlist@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:56:30 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> What's the difference between a "display manager" and a "window  
> manager"?

Maybe Rick wanted to ask (if not him than I am :)
What is the difference between a "desktop manager/enviroment" (GNOME/KDE/XFce4)
and a "window manager" (fluxbox/metacity/IceWm)?

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