• TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Neither of them are window managers, they are windowing systems. A window manager is the part that actually lets you move around windows and draws the borders and stuff, like kwin, mutter, xfwm, i3, etc

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        11 months ago

        As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.

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        11 months ago

        No, Wayland is just a protocol, and the things that implement it are compositors, not WMs

        Also, there’s no such thing as a DWM, except for the WM called dwm