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• KDE — An alternative desktop environment based on the Qt 3 graphical toolkit.
Both GNOME and KDE have advanced productivity applications, such as word processors,
spreadsheets, and Web browsers, and provide tools to customize the look and feel of the GUI.
Additionally, if both the GTK+ 2 and the Qt libraries are present, KDE applications can run in
GNOME and visa versa.
2.2. Window Managers
Window managers are X client programs which are either part of a desktop environment or, in
some cases, standalone. Their primary purpose is to control the way graphical windows are
positioned, resized, or moved. Window managers also control title bars, window focus behavior,
and user-specified key and mouse button bindings.
Four window managers are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
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— The KWin window manager is the default window manager for KDE. It is an efficient
kwin
window manager which supports custom themes.
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— The Metacity window manager is the default window manager for GNOME. It is
metacity
a simple and efficient window manager which supports custom themes.
•
— The Motif window manager is a basic, standalone window manager. Since it is
mwm
designed to be a standalone window manager, it should not be used in conjunction with
GNOME or KDE.
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— The minimalist Tab Window Manager, which provides the most basic tool set of any of
twm
the window managers and can be used either as a standalone or with a desktop environment.
It is installed as part of the X11R6.8 release.
These window managers can be run without desktop environments to gain a better sense of
their differences. To do this, type the
<path-to-window-manager>
can be found by typing
name of the window manager you are querying.
3. X Server Configuration Files
The X server is a single binary executable (
necessary X server modules at runtime from the
these modules are automatically loaded by the server, while others are optional and must be
specified in the X server configuration file.
The X server and associated configuration files are stored in the
configuration file for the X server is
installed, the configuration files for X are created using information gathered about the system
hardware during the installation process.
xinit -e <path-to-window-manager>
is the location of the window manager binary file. The binary file
which <window-manager-name>
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
, where
<window-manager-name>
) that dynamically loads any
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/
/etc/X11/
. When Red Hat Enterprise Linux is
Window Managers
command, where
is the
directory. Some of
directory. The
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