[CLUE-Tech] Enlightenment, gnome and KDE.

[Jeffery C. Cann]

On Monday 18 December 2000 19:29, Randolph Cordell wrote:
> If KDE is using fwm then I didn't know that. 

As I said in my last message, KDE is using kwm. (KDE Window Manager = kwm)  
Fvwm (Free Virtual Window Manager = fvwm) is another example of a window 
manager.  Fvwm was popular from 1995 - 1997 and was the default desktop for 
most Linux distributions -- check Red Hat, version 4.0 and you'll see what I 
mean.

> It said that in order to change Gnome's default WM you need to open its
> desktop control panel or whatever it calls it and select the WM you prefer
> to use from there (which by default is Enlightenment and Window Maker).

The thing is that you can use whatever window manager you wish.  This is the 
beauty of the X protocol.  Now, if you use fvwm in place of kwm in KDE or 
Enlightenment (GNOME), you won't get all of the services that these window 
managers provide.  For example, I once replaced fvwm with kwm without using 
the rest of KDE.  This gave me nice drag and drop on a box with limited 
memory.

Jeff
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