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Those are all window manages and you know it… If it requires a config script to make it user friendly it’s not a DE. That along with an app suite is what disti
by pipeline_peak 4y ago
Those are all window manages and you know it…
If it requires a config script to make it user friendly it’s not a DE. That along with an app suite is what distinguishes DEs from standalone WM’s.
Some of the wm’s you listed can actually run as a core component to be wrapped around a DE.
- pjmlp 4y agoIf we are playing honesty here, you also know that XFCE 1.0 wasn't one. "Initially, XFce was just the toolbar, without the window manager and all the goodies. In 1998, I released XFce 2.x with xfwm, the window manager. The rest of the goodies came from release to release ... " https://web.archive.org/web/20070116201506/http://linuxgazette.net/issue43/jacobowitz.xfce.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070116201506/http://linuxgazet...