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by **Joey Mai** » Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:00:00

There seem to be an aweful lot of Xwindows managers out there. Could
someone summarize the pros and cons of KDE, MetroX, CDE, Openlook,
.....[feel free to insert some of your own here]....Xfree86/X11

by **John Lueder** » Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:00:00

> There seem to be an aweful lot of Xwindows managers out there. Could
> someone summarize the pros and cons of KDE, MetroX, CDE, Openlook,
> .....[feel free to insert some of your own here]....Xfree86/X11

For the most part the only difference is the look of the window manager
but there is also the fact that some have more features then others.
Most windows managers have be developed from FVWM. The 2.0 version has
the most features of any Window manager I have seen but is the hardest
to setup and has the worst look and feel. FVWM95 has the same features
as FVWM but with a M$ Win95 look. Great for fromer PC user that can not
let go. AfterStep has the best look and feel. It tries to copy the
look and feel of the NeXTSTEP OS but adds a alot of feature of its own.
I give AfterStep my vote. My page has a list of a good number of Window
Managers.

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/luederjh/linux.html

MetroX and Xfree86/X11 are not window managers. I would not even thing
of running Openlook.

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Later, John.

by **Arcadio A. Sincero J** » Sat, 14 Jun 1997 04:00:00

>> There seem to be an aweful lot of Xwindows managers out there. Could
>> someone summarize the pros and cons of KDE, MetroX, CDE, Openlook,
>> .....[feel free to insert some of your own here]....Xfree86/X11
> For the most part the only difference is the look of the window manager
> but there is also the fact that some have more features then others.
> MetroX and Xfree86/X11 are not window managers. I would not even thing
> of running Openlook.

Firstly, MetroX and XFree86 like John said are not window
managers. They are X servers.

Window managers such as FVWM and AfterStep are special X
clients whose primary resposibility is to control window operations and
behavior (such as iconifying or tiling windows).

KDE and CDE are what are known in the X world as Desktop
Managers. They give you a complete, graphical environment much like
WorkPlace Shell for IBM's Presentation Manager (the windowing system
used on OS/2) does.

OpenLook is a GUI implemetation for X. A GUI defines the
"look-and-feel" of a program. Other GUIs for X are Motif and Athena.
CDE uses the Motif GUI. KDE uses the GUI implemented by the Qt
Toolkit, which is very similar to the Motif look-and-feel.

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