On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 05:08:10PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote:
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> On 04/23/2016 04:20 PM, aitor_czr wrote:
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> >On 04/22/2016 11:17 AM, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> >>In my opinion there's no magic line where things on one side are window
> >>>managers and things on the other side are desktop environments. I think
> >>>we can all agree that Unity, KDE and Gnome are desktop environments,
> >>>and dwm and i3 are window managers, but what's Xfce? What's LXDE?
> >>>What's Openbox?
> >>>
> >>>I think of de/wm as a spectrum, not a 1/0.
> >
> >I agree with you, there is not a borderline.
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> It doesn't matter how much you agree on an opinion. That will not
> make it fact. There is a technical difference between the two. Just
> look up the definition of "window manager" and "desktop environment"
> on any techsite/dictionary/encyclopedia. Unless you are trying to
> sound ignorant, it would make sense to use the correct terminology.

Isn't a window manager the thing that intercepts your normal, everyday
communication between an X client and an X server and acts as a
man-in-the-middle to provide you with window borders, motility, and the
like? The thing that could even be running on a different machine from
either the client of the server?

-- hendrik