[Fwd: Re: Switching Window Managers --- follow up]

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, slimboyfatboyslim wrote:

> I really like ubuntu but I'm not a big fan of gnome, to be more precise, 
> I don't really want to run either KDE, gnome or xfce, I just want to 
> have enlightment

gnome is not a window manager. There /is/ a gnome window manager, but
gnome is primarily a widget set - a bunch of libraries to make
programming applications easier.

ditto kde.

Developers usually choose one or the other. Some use qt.

ldd $(which enlightenment)

will tell you which set enlightenment uses. the command will list
all the shared libraries it needs - you can usually tell by the
names which flavour they are. It is probably gnome.

If one generally sticks to one flavour, memory usage is less overall,
because for all the apps loaded that need one shared library, the
library is only used once.

If you have plenty of RAM, who cares ?

Cheers,    Andy!