CHOOSING A WINDOW MANAGER

A trivial but important detail about X is that it doesn't come with a window manager or Desktop by default. X handles your keyboard, mouse, and output screen. It comes with a basic system that lets you "place" windows in locations on the screen and then terminate those windows . The fancy menus and toolbars are left to the window managers that run on top of X. Several window managers are available, including the popular Gnome, KDE, and Window Maker applications. Microsoft X Window System emulators like ReflectionX and Exceed also have their own built-in custom window managers. It's important for you to remember that X is only the underlying architecture for the windowing system; it has nothing to do with the look and feel of that graphical environment.