Jochen Schulz wrote: > A window manager is a program that just "manages windows". It gives > applications an area on the screen where they can be displayed and most > often the WM draws a border around it, gives it a nice title and enables > the user to do things with these windows - put one on the foreground, > minimize another one etc. > > Very often window managers come with some kind of a panel, virtual > desktop support and some kind of application launcher (a "start menu" or > icons on the panel), but strictly speaking, this is exceeding the task > of a minimal WM. > > Desktop environments (KDE, Gnome. Xfce) do far more than that. They come > with a file manager, draw the background with pixmaps and icons, they do > some work behind your back to easily handle removable storage or enable > drag'n drop. They come with "control centers" to do system > administration and generally give the user a simplified, cleaned up view > on their system. Applications supporting the DE all look the same and > share a lot of routines to do common tasks. DEs also provide > applications with a way to register themselves for a filetype which they > can handle, which is then reflected when using the DE's file manager and > so on... Of course, this list is not complete.
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