[97014] in RedHat Linux List
Re: xwindows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven N. Thommesen)
Fri Oct 30 16:54:10 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:51:20 -0600
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From: "Sven N. Thommesen" <sthomme@aub.mindspring.com>
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At 04:24 PM 10/30/1998 +0100, Anthony Greene wrote:
>At 19:07 1998-10-29 -0600, mike kohout wrote:
>>OK, I installed linux two days ago. I was wondering if you could
>>explain to me (and maybe some of the other newbies out there) what KDE
>>and xfce2 are. From what I've read of your thread so far, are they like
>>a replacement for XF86? or are they something else
>
>They allow you to do things in X11 that fvwm2 does not support. For
>instance KDE allows drag/drop operations, icons on the desktop, and
>includes the kind of graphical desktop config tools that Win95 users are
>accustomed to.
>
>KDE also includes some applications that are aware of the KDE environment
>and allow more easily integrated operations. Go to <http://www.kde.org/>
>and check out some of the screen shots.
On the other hand, should you happen to have an application that opens more
windows than will fit on a single screen, and you'd like to position those
windows off screen on the virtual desktop under program control, I've only
found Fvwm2 to allow you to do that. xfce and kde don't. :-(
-Sven
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