Talk:X window manager
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- could someone explain how window managers relate to things like KDE and gnome?
KDE, Gnome, Enlightment and Xfce are desktop manager. They contain a window manager but add things to it. Basicly they add an extra api and some rules for application programmers. So that the whole desktop is more integrated.
Afcourse to do this, they also have to be a window manager.
Extra note: Some will see Enlightment as a window manager and some will see it as a desktop manager, the same with some other desktop/window manager. Both are right, it is how you see it that coints.
An other note: Some (more pure) desktop manager allow for an other window manager (part). That other window manager will afcourse need to be written in a way that it kan be used with that desktop manager. Usually with an special api. -- ppareit
- So a desktop manager is a window manager with more bits for better integration? -- Tarquin 20:34, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Centrx, isn't "window manager" unique to X? In other words, I don't see why move it when it's not namespace pollution. --Shallot 21:27, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)