mikshaw
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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,15:06 |
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Fluxbox and JWM are window managers only, so the application is basically one file. Xfce, on the other hand, is a desktop environment containing many parts and programs. Each distro has its own idea of what works best, so each package is built to run a different set of apps (or maybe different themes as well) by default. This could result in xfce looking quite different from one distro to another.
An application like this is usually started from a script. This script is in charge of loading the individual elements that make up the desktop environment. I have xfce on my suse system, and it appears that the individual parts are run from /usr/local/etc/xfce4/xinitrc, which is started from startxfce4 (i assume this is used as a replacement for startx, though i haven't touched xfce in a while).
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