On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:16:13 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:18:54PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:42:50 +0100 > > Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:51:57 +0530 > > > "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW, GNOME and XFCE are desktop environments, as opposed to window > > > managers. They each include a window manager (metacity and xfwin, > > > respectively). > > > > s/xfwin/xfwm/ > > > > However, you don't have to install all the xfce modules that make it a > desktop environment. From what I've found, you need xfce4 session > manager since it is responsibile for starting all the components you > use, but, for example, on the box where I have it, I don't have the > desktop icons thiny or thunar installed. For filemanager I generally > use mc but since my browser is Konquorer, it functions as a graphical > file manager when I need that. You can even dispense with xfce4-session and start the various components directly. Obviously you then lose the "session management" stuff. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]