Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Chapter 5. Window Managers

In This Chapter

• What Is a Window Manager?

• The GNOME X Environment

• Features of the sawfish Window Manager

• Features of the Enlightenment Window Manager

• Features of the K Desktop Environment

• Configuring KDE with the KDE Control Center

• The fvwm2 Window Manager

• The twm Window Manager

This chapter covers a variety of window managers for the X Window System. As you learned in Chapter 4, "Configuring the X Window System, Version 11," X11 provides the basic networking protocols and drawing primitives used to build the platform for various graphical interfaces, or window managers, you can use with Linux. You'll find a wealth of different clients, or programs, for X included on this book's CD-ROM, including the window managers discussed ...