The Gnome Desktop Environment
Figure 5.3 shows the same X session again. This time, however, it is running under the Gnome desktop environment, and it is quite user-friendly. We have a panel across the top and bottom that allows us to easily access features, a taskbar that lists running applications, and we also have the ability to place icons on the desktop (the icons are mostly hidden in this figure).
Figure 5.3. The same X session, this time running under Gnome.
Notice that the window borders and controls look the same because Gnome does not have its own window manager. Instead, it uses the services of a Gnome-aware window manager to manage ...
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