Michele Calgaro composed on 2015-06-07 20:21 (UTC+0900):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> IceWM is a DE.

> Not to be fussy, but IceWM is *not* a DE, it is a Window Manager
> (that's what WM stands for, after all). The main role of a WM is to
> handle window visualization, in case of TDE it is done by twin. So it
> is perfectly possible to run a DE using a WM different from the
> "default" one.

A DE incorporates a WM, being that all are dependant on one as its foundation
if they aren't one exclusively, just not a simple one like IceWM, TWM and
other bare bones kin. There's no way to say Gnome, KDE, Cinammon or TDE are
not both DE and WM.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/18078/what-is-the-difference-between-a-desktop-environment-and-a-window-manager
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