Seems to me that attacks aimed primarily at a civilian population, like depriving the Iraqi people of their porn fix, would be explicitly banned by the Geneva convention.
That's a pretty thoughtless comment, given the seriousness of the Geneva convention and our nearness to killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
"The Desktop Manager gives functionality to the regions of the screen not occupied by windows. This might include setting the background image, drawing shortcut icons, displaying pop-up menus to launch applications, etc."
I think your description of the desktop manager may be off.
-Background images are usually displayed by a process seperate from the desktop environment, such as xsetroot.
-Short cut's are drawn by a file manager such as Nautalus (if your window manager supports one -- blackbox, for example, does not).
-Menus created by right clicking on the background are created by the window manager. In Afterstep, for example, it is in Afterstep's menu file where the items on the menu are specified.
Come to think of it, I don't really know what a desktop environment does. In fact, I've been told many window managers can run on X windows without a desktop manager (blackbox, for example). Moreover, it is still possible to cut and paste text between applications without a desktop environment, though I thought desktop environment had something to do with cutting and pasting. Oh, perhaps it's all those desktop-related libraries that are so important. Still, I'm not really sure why gnome-related processes need to be running in order to use GTK libraries.
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Seems to me that attacks aimed primarily at a civilian population, like depriving the Iraqi people of their porn fix, would be explicitly banned by the Geneva convention. That's a pretty thoughtless comment, given the seriousness of the Geneva convention and our nearness to killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
I think your description of the desktop manager may be off.
-Background images are usually displayed by a process seperate from the desktop environment, such as xsetroot.
-Short cut's are drawn by a file manager such as Nautalus (if your window manager supports one -- blackbox, for example, does not).
-Menus created by right clicking on the background are created by the window manager. In Afterstep, for example, it is in Afterstep's menu file where the items on the menu are specified.
Come to think of it, I don't really know what a desktop environment does. In fact, I've been told many window managers can run on X windows without a desktop manager (blackbox, for example). Moreover, it is still possible to cut and paste text between applications without a desktop environment, though I thought desktop environment had something to do with cutting and pasting. Oh, perhaps it's all those desktop-related libraries that are so important. Still, I'm not really sure why gnome-related processes need to be running in order to use GTK libraries.
A little help here...