Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

["Sudev Barar" <sbarar@gmail.com>]

On 11/06/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:29:39AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
> > Replying on the list as this may end up in more learning for me as well.
> >

Thanks and your post more than justified my faith in collective wisdom
available on the list.

[SNIP]
> > As far as only use of alternative display managers is concerned you
> > can just do apt-get install icewm or xfce4 or matchbox.
>
> the *dm's are not "X servers" the X server is X itself (currently x.org,
> was xfree86 in sarge). the *dm's are "Desktop Managers" and they do a
> number of things: control login, setup x sessions, and ultimately
> launch some window manager and various acoutrements to go with it.
[SNIP]

Thanks again for lots of things to try out and enhance my knowledge.
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Regards,
Sudev Barar