I defined some environment variables in my .profile like this:
MY_HOME="/home/my_user"
but the variable does not seem to evaluate unless I strip off the quotes and re-source the file. I believe the quotes are necessary if there will be spaces, and single quotes are used if escapes are not des...
A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They work in conjunction with the underlying graphical system which provides required functionality such as support for graphics hardware, pointing devices, and a keyboard, and are often written and created using a widget toolkit.
Few window managers are designed with a clear distinction between the windowing system and the window manager. Every graphical user interface whi...
