[dundee] Linux on the desktop

Andrew Clayton andrew at digital-domain.net
Sun Jan 11 15:18:10 GMT 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:03, Martin Habets wrote:

[snip]

> To explain more: a window manager takes care of the window boundaries and
> the menus that appear when clicking on them, and (optionally) a menu when clicking
> on the root window (i.e. the background).
> A display manager takes care of a toolbar, clickable icons, and virtual screens on

Hmm... more specifically speaking, these would be handled by the toolkit
being used (rather then the window manager as I previously said),
GTK/QT/Motif/FLTK etc


> the root window.
> Sorry if this is turning academic (no pun intended), but I'd like to make sure we are
> on the same page here.

[snip]

> Martin
> 


Andrew




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