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Re:Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them a... by pipeline_peak on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:35PM (#33926701)
Those are all window manages and you know it…

If it requires a config script to make it user friendly it’s not a DE. That along with an app suite is what distinguishes DEs from standalone WM’s.

Some of the wm’s you listed can actually run as a core component to be wrapped around a DE.

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Re:Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them a... by pjmlp on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:42PM (#33926747)
If we are playing honesty here, you also know that XFCE 1.0 wasn't one.

"Initially, XFce was just the toolbar, without the window manager and all the goodies. In 1998, I released XFce 2.x with xfwm, the window manager. The rest of the goodies came from release to release ... "

https://web.archive.org/web/20070116201506/http://linuxgazet...

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