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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.1 query
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:46:03
Message-Id: h8u3ka$52h$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query by Philip Webb
1 On 09/16/2009 05:12 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 090917 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3
4 >> KDE can use all ICCCM adhering WM.
5 >
6 > How can "KDE use WM" ? -- your words make no sense in English.
7
8 Some semantic confusion here. Desktop 'environments' like gnome and
9 kde come packaged with their own window managers (metacity and kwin,
10 respectively) but you may easily substitute any other window manager
11 that respects the ICCCM mechanisms because they all do the same basic
12 stuff -- some add extra stuff on top, of course. Metacity is billed
13 as "the window manager for adults" because it does *no* extra stuff :o)