Window Managers
The window manager runs on top of the X-Server. It is what controls how the graphical environment looks and behaves. Figure 5.1 shows what a default X-session would look like.
Figure 5.1. A very bland and rather useless X session.
In Figure 5.1, there are several applications running in the X-Windows session: an xterm, a clock, a calculator, and the GIMP image-processing program that I used to take this screen shot. There are no title bars on the windows and the windows have no borders. The windows are not resizable or movable. Nor can they be minimized or maximized. Obviously, this makes for a pretty useless graphical user interface. ...
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