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[Luke -Jr]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Bradley Hook wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Shouldn't that be KDE and Gnome both _use_ heavy window managers? or
> > are you saying that KDE and Gnome are window managers?
>
> Technically, yes. But I guess what I meant to say is that kde and gnome
> are both heavy "desktop environments". I personally don't know anyone
> that uses just the window managers of either kde or gnome. With fluxbox,
> there really isn't anything else to it other than the window manager, so
> it is an extremely light desktop environment.

Fluxbox is a window manager, not a desktop environment. You can combine 
Fluxbox with applications to get a desktop environment, but that is very 
unlikely to be "lighter" than KDE or GNOME.