On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:08:10 +0900
Simon Walter<si...@gikaku.com> wrote:
On 04/22/2016 11:17 AM, KatolaZ<kato...@freaknet.org> 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.
>
>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.
You are right, IMO Lxde is pure openbox including some features, but you
can't run both lxde and xfce together. By contrast, you can run openbox
within xfce or kde...
Cheers,
Aitor.
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