Re: Problems with current Apple X11 package
Re: Problems with current Apple X11 package
- Subject: Re: Problems with current Apple X11 package
- From: magenta <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:30:37 -0800
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:12:10PM -0800, Sean Ahern wrote:
> magenta wrote:
> > But when the server is running rootless in the middle of another
> > windowing environment, and the X window manager has no reasonable way to
> > know that it's running inside another environment, the server has to
> > account for this.
> >
> > My view is that since the Apple-X11 server is essentially another OSX
> > application, the server should at least be configurable to "help out" the
> > window manager with regards to window raise policy and so on. The window
> > manager I run (pwm) is not *designed* to intermingle with a completely
> > separate windowing interface.
>
> Are you talking about the stacking order of X11 windows with respect to
> ordinary Quartz windows? If that's the case, then I agree with you that
> the X server needs to provide some type of "intermingling" policy, as no
> X11 window manager has the capability of knowing that there are windows
> outside of the X11 environment.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
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