linux distro for laptop

[Luke-Jr]

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:48, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 04:04 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > The Beryl fork of Compiz has removed all GNOME dependencies. It is now
> > > a completely stand-alone application.
> >
> > But you can't use it with KWin/KDE.
>
> Indeed you can in the same way that you use it with GNOME. beryl
> --replace kills any already running window manager. In GNOME's case it
> kills Metacity; in KDE's case it kill KDM.

You just proved my point. It replaces/kills KWin. KWin is an essential part of 
KDE. If it's missing, it's no longer KDE that you're using, it's some hybrid.
GNOME differs because it supports and is designed able to handle changing the 
window manager.