5.2 Flashcards
______________ controls the placement and appearance of windows on a Linux computer (such as moving, hiding, resizing, or closing), as well as controlling what they display. Most Linux distributions come with multiple _____________
windows manager
A few window manager examples for X11 include
Enlightenment
Sawfish
KDE Window Manager (KWin)
___________ are the graphical applications (such as Firefox) requesting the display of pixel buffers on the screen.
X clients
____________controls the desktop features, including desktop menus, screensavers, wallpapers, desktop icons, and taskbars.
desktop enviorments
The two most common desktop environments are
GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) and Kool Desktop Environment (KDE).
_____________ is the main component of the Wayland system. In a Wayland system, the display server and the compositor (window manager) are one component, simplifying the process of updating the GUI.
The Wayland compositor
The Wayland compositor handles the following
manages input
is networked
controls placement and appearance of windows
controls what is diplayed
Clients are the graphical applications (such as Firefox) requesting the display of pixel buffers on the screen. In a Wayland system, the client also performs the rendering by itself and then shares that information with the
__________ .
compositor
A desktop environment controls the desktop features, including desktop menus, screensavers, wallpapers, desktop icons, and taskbars . The two most common desktop environments are
GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) and Kool Desktop Environment (KDE)
The desktop environment leverages the information created by the window manager or compositor and then adds a series of tools and utilities to make the _____________ useful.
graphical user interface
