Re: XFCE, and Gnome
On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:16:13 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:18:54PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:42:50 +0100
> > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:51:57 +0530
> > > "Masatran, R. Deepak" <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
>
> > > BTW, GNOME and XFCE are desktop environments, as opposed to window
> > > managers. They each include a window manager (metacity and xfwin,
> > > respectively).
> >
> > s/xfwin/xfwm/
> >
>
> However, you don't have to install all the xfce modules that make it a
> desktop environment. From what I've found, you need xfce4 session
> manager since it is responsibile for starting all the components you
> use, but, for example, on the box where I have it, I don't have the
> desktop icons thiny or thunar installed. For filemanager I generally
> use mc but since my browser is Konquorer, it functions as a graphical
> file manager when I need that.
You can even dispense with xfce4-session and start the various
components directly. Obviously you then lose the "session management"
stuff.
--
Liam
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