October 2001
Beginner
1024 pages
25h 8m
English
Figure 5.3 shows the same X session again. This time, however, it is running under the Gnome desktop environment, and it is quite user-friendly. We have a panel across the top and bottom that allows us to easily access features, a taskbar that lists running applications, and we also have the ability to place icons on the desktop (the icons are mostly hidden in this figure).

Notice that the window borders and controls look the same because Gnome does not have its own window manager. Instead, it uses the services of a Gnome-aware window manager to manage ...
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