Re: Is the Linux Graphics Stack Backwards?

Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:51:31 +0100, J.O. Aho staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:

>>> 2. Xorg/XFree86 also includes a number of useful user-level programs
>>> like xterm (terminal emulator) and twm (really basic window manager).
>>> These are sort of like CALC.EXE and REGEDIT.EXE in Windows-land.
>> I would say twm is like explorer.exe in Microsoft.
>
> ? It's a window manager, not a file manager/web browser. Windows and
> OS X don't really have the concept of a "window manager". This is just
> one of the many things people using X for the first time may get
> confused by.

As far as I can remember, the binary for MSIE is named iexplorer.exe, while
explorer.exe is used for the desktop and is repalced if you want to use litestep.


//Aho
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