gnome question

[Janina Sajka]

Well, yes. But, gdm is the "Gnome Display Manager." And, you can
correctly take the implication that the default windowing environment on
Fedora is Gnome.

I have never heard of a distro shipping with kdm as the default display
manager, and gnome as the default windowing environment, in other words.
Nor have I heard of of any permutation of that.

Kenny Hitt writes:
> Hi.
> Gdm is a display manager, not a window manager.The difference is important.
> I don't know what the default window manager is for Fedora, but
> metacity will probably be best for accessibility.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:41:56AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > The default window manager for the Speakup Modified Fedora is GDM.
> > 
> > In other words, Gnome is the default window environment on a Speakup
> > Modified Fedora installation under Xwindows.
> > 
> > So, if you follow the instructions in the HOWTO, you'll end up with
> > everything you need, just as the HOWTO says.
> > 
> > But, no. You are going to second guess. OK. Your choice.
> > 
> > Luke Yelavich writes:
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> > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 05:56:07PM EST, Gustafsson Kristoffer (elev) wrote:
> > > > Hello!
> > > > What differences is there between the gnome desktop environment and the x environment?
> > > > I have read a bit, but can't really find any.
> > > 
> > > X is the graphical environment that communicates with your video 
> > > hardware to display graphics, the mouse pointer, etc. GNOME is a desktop 
> > > environment that has everything you need to run and manage running 
> > > grapical applications. It has a window manager, provides a desktop 
> > > background, and other features to make using apps easier. The various 
> > > components of GNOME communicate with X to display their content.
> > > 
> > > > also, what packages do I need to install in order to enable gnoe?
> > > > I didn't install it with fedora core since I'm unsure if gnome will start automatically as x does if I select that during the installation.
> > > 
> > > I am unable to help you there, as even though a lot of distros package 
> > > GNOME, they all package it differently.
> > > 
> > > > is there automatic boot of gnome like for x?
> > > > thanks
> > > 
> > > Automatic booting of GNOME requires X to do so. So in effect, X is being 
> > > loaded, but with GNOME as well.
> > > - -- 
> > > Luke
> > > 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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