On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:22:05PM +0100, AG wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Mark wrote: > >>When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the > >>desktop environment. > > > >Ron Johnson writes: > >>But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and > >>the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks widely > >>useful. > > > >"No desktop environment" does not mean no graphics (nor does it mean no X). > >There _is_ life outside CDE, KDE, and Gnome. > Care to elaborate on that, John? This is a serious question - I > used to use Xfce back in the days of Slackware 8.1, but that was > still a WM (or was that a DE?). Are you referring to those FWM-like > systems, or something entirely different? Xfce is a DE. There are window managers like Openbox, Fluxbox, xmonad, dwm, awesome and many more than do not require a desktop environment.
All DEs actually use a WM themselves - they just have many other components. Xfce uses xfwm4, GNOME uses nautilus, and KDE uses kwin, for example. > > AG -- Brian
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