Conveniently, for all of these, you can change the default window manager to something else, which is what I've been doing for a while. KDE has KWin, Gnome 2 has Metacity, Gnome 3 has Mutter, and Xfce has Xfwm. Different desktop environments use different window managers. A window manager alone handles (among other window related things) the sizing and arrangement of the windows you open. In short, a desktop environment such as KDE, Gnome, or Xfce includes many things, of which a window manager is one, but also with select applications. Years passed and by accident, I found my way to and their version of a window manager called dwm. It worked fine but I couldn't get around the Haskell part to really turn it into my perfect desktop. So, I moved on and discovered xmonad, but I had a similar result. I tried it out but didn't get the hang of the configuration needed to tweak it into my liking. It neatly arranges all of your windows for you, and so, sounded like just what I wanted. Then, one day I came across a video of Bryan Lunduke talking about the awesome window manager he used called Awesome. On my quest for minimalism, I grew fond of Xfce and used it as my main desktop environment for years on my Linux computers. I also grow tired of resizing and moving windows, never getting them to align perfectly. It's free from shiny stuff that hogs my resources and distracts my feeble mind. If I could run everything in a terminal I would.
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