All Questions
Tagged with desktop-environments window-manager
7
questions
22
votes
2
answers
9k
views
Is Cinnamon a desktop environment or a window manager? (Or both?)
As far as I understand it:
X11 is how you draw primitive things;
A (compositing) window manager is something that uses X11 to provide the tools for drawing more complex things, and position them in ...
- 685
1
vote
1
answer
4k
views
Run i3 (4.12) inside of Gnome (3.20.3)
I run Linux Manjaro and I really love the way Gnome 3 looks, but I hate having to manually move windows out of the way of each other. I tried i3 and really liked it, however it looks pretty hideous.
...
- 181
3
votes
1
answer
3k
views
run a bash script at logoff, shutdown, and restart on Linux
I need to run a bash script each time a Debian-esque thick client logs off, shuts down, or restarts. Outside of that, it can be any distro, desktop environment, window manager, or otherwise (...
- 431
0
votes
1
answer
501
views
Openbox fails on login
X throws this error:
Xsession: unable to launch "/usr/share/xsessions/openbox.xsession" Xsession
--- "/usr/share/xsessions/openbox.xsession" not found; Falling back to
default session.
But a trip ...
- 215
2
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Anyone have a successful Xfce + Fluxbox spin?
A little background. Before upgrading to F15, I used Gnome out of box. I installed much the same with Fedora 15 i386 ISO at Fedoraproject.org's home page. Gnome 3 is not supported on my laptop. I'm ...
- 1,005
5
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Sideward Scrolling Desktop Environment or Window Manager
I saw a guy on the train the other day with a desktop environment or window manager that when you moved your mouse to the edge of the screen it would scroll sideways to reveal more of the desktop. As ...
- 163
26
votes
3
answers
9k
views
Window Manager vs. Desktop Environment vs. Window System? What's the difference?
I'm confused as to what these terms actually mean AND as to what they do/how they contribute to the system as a whole. In particular, back when I was running Ubuntu, there were several keywords like:
...
- 16.7k