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  • I’m an ultra-noob, so those who know more please correct me.

    I’m playing with Linux VMs and recently I installed Debian to check it out. When it asked what DE I wanted, I chose all of them :).

    The only hard conflict (AFAIK) is the [compontent / feature responsible for loging in] (I don’t know the technical term). Because each DE comes with a different one, you need to choose one.

    What I found very confusing in practice is that I could see some DE apps and configuration settings from other DEs. So, unless you know what belongs to what, it’s a bit of a mess (in my VERY limited experience).


  • Oooh… I see. I didn’t understand how broad the Desktop Env really are. Is not that they manage “a lot of things regarding the desktop and windows”… is just like a bundle of apps.

    Now it’s starting to sound like a sub-distro inside the distros, but I think this is a good point to stop bothering you. Thanks again!


  • So, just to check I understood:

    • “[Tiling] Window Managers” are a very specific tool.
    • “Desktop Environments” are broader tools that (may?) contain Window Managers.

    Now… the next questions (if you have the patience :P) are:

    • is is possible to use a Window Manager without a Desktop Environment?
    • how does this influence your choose for the terminal emulator? Ó_ò

    Thanks for the answers!




  • That’s weird. The only reason I can think of is, if you have tweaked with userChrome.css, the toolbar with the question may not be visible. I say that because it has happened to me :). You can try restarting with add-ons disabled (via about:profiles) and see if there is any difference.

    EDIT: Another option would be that there is some setting I’ve changed to allow this. But if I did, I don’t remember doing it :/.

    Here it is how it should look like: