The Desktop Environment and Window Manager in GNU-Linux

When the system runs an X server (graphical), X client applications can use and create a GUI (graphical interface). The range of GUIs is very broad, ranging from the most rudimentary ones (twm), to the most developed and interactive (GNOME, KDE... ). To be able to create these more advanced GUIs, applications connect two main classes of X client applications to X server: a desktop environment and a window manager.

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