I know some distros use KDE, Gnome or Xfce and sometimes all are installed.
What is Puppy using?
Which GUI does Puppy use?
Sorry about that... still waking up at that point.
SimplePup isn't being developed any more, but it's probably still available for download.
The only thing it's lacking is Gaim (chat client), but if you need it there's a dotpup or pupget package for it.
Found a site with it:
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=2
SimplePup isn't being developed any more, but it's probably still available for download.
The only thing it's lacking is Gaim (chat client), but if you need it there's a dotpup or pupget package for it.
Found a site with it:
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=2
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I used Simplepup for a couple of weeks (it needed 256 meg memory on some setups)
It is the Puplet with the highest usability in my opinion. I liked it a great deal BUT missing components (if Gaim was missing . . . I think it was . . .) meant I had to move back to standard Pup.
Download also here:
http://tmxxine.com/puppy/
I think the Xfce .pup is there too and check out the manual (Intro to Puppy) if you have not . . .
I seem to remember Simplepup had some elements that were adopted in Puppy 1.09 (available for download now)
Does Xfce work with 1.09? Do we have XDG menus for Xfce?
It is the Puplet with the highest usability in my opinion. I liked it a great deal BUT missing components (if Gaim was missing . . . I think it was . . .) meant I had to move back to standard Pup.
Download also here:
http://tmxxine.com/puppy/
I think the Xfce .pup is there too and check out the manual (Intro to Puppy) if you have not . . .
I seem to remember Simplepup had some elements that were adopted in Puppy 1.09 (available for download now)
Does Xfce work with 1.09? Do we have XDG menus for Xfce?
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Beem, you have it almost right.
The "X Window System", or "X11", or even just "X" (but NEVER "X Windows") is the systm that runs on top of Linux (or Unix, or BSD, Solaris, etc) and provides the ability for the OS to do graphics, manage the mouse, keyboard, etc.
The window manager is a program that runs on top of X and takes care of the wa that windows, icons, menus, etc are all handled. There are dozens of window managers for X, such as jwm, twm, fluxbox, IceWM, RatPoison, EvilWM, and so on.
Window managers are built using toolkits that provide the basic pieces. You may hear of such toolkits as Motif, Athena, Qt, FLTK, or Gtk. Window managers built on the same toolkits tend to look similar.
Beyond window managers, there are some projects that make GDEs, Graphical Desktop Environments. The well-known examples are KDE (built with Qt) and Gnome and XFCE (both built on Gtk).
With those basic distinctions in mind, you can find thousands of pages of documentation on the web.
Hope this helps,
Mark
The "X Window System", or "X11", or even just "X" (but NEVER "X Windows") is the systm that runs on top of Linux (or Unix, or BSD, Solaris, etc) and provides the ability for the OS to do graphics, manage the mouse, keyboard, etc.
The window manager is a program that runs on top of X and takes care of the wa that windows, icons, menus, etc are all handled. There are dozens of window managers for X, such as jwm, twm, fluxbox, IceWM, RatPoison, EvilWM, and so on.
Window managers are built using toolkits that provide the basic pieces. You may hear of such toolkits as Motif, Athena, Qt, FLTK, or Gtk. Window managers built on the same toolkits tend to look similar.
Beyond window managers, there are some projects that make GDEs, Graphical Desktop Environments. The well-known examples are KDE (built with Qt) and Gnome and XFCE (both built on Gtk).
With those basic distinctions in mind, you can find thousands of pages of documentation on the web.
Hope this helps,
Mark