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Re: Manage window: change positions, etc.



On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:12:20 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-23 13:38, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> 
>> DE = Desktop Environment (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc.)
>> WM = Window Manager
>> 
>> A Desktop Environment is also sometimes referred to as a Session Manager.
> 
> No.
> 
> A Session Manager is *part of* a DE.
> 
> The Session Manager plus WM plus panel plus integrated other junk 
> combines to make a DE.

True.  Strictly speaking, meatcity's session manager is gnome-session
in this context, not the entire suite of gnome-* packages.

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