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>Now, you should decide on a window manager. The X Window System is simply
the environment which allows graphics to be displayed on your system's
hardware; the window manager is responsible for how X looks and how it
interacts with you and your applications.</P
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>The Red Hat distribution of Linux contains several window managers,
including fvwm, olvm, twm, AfterStep, and others. The default one
that you will probably see when starting up X for the first time is
fvwm95, a Win95-like environment.</P
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>Personally, I find the usual offerings differ from my own tastes, and
I recommend using either GNOME or KDE (or both!), whose installation
are covered in the next two sections.</P
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