Re: why run any window manager?
Re: why run any window manager?
- Subject: Re: why run any window manager?
- From: "John J. Francini" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:46:21 -0400
At 2:25 -0500 5/19/03, Randy Ford wrote:
On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 05:17 PM, Elwood C. Downey wrote:
Hello,
I have a personal question to ask: why run /any/ window manager
under X11? For
me the beauty of the whole idea is to mingle X11 apps with Aqua
apps. It would
seem very confusing to me to shift mental gears for window manager
issues when
inside or outside of Aqua. What is the big advantage I am missing here?
X isn't very usable without a window manager. The wm places the
window on the screen, adds decorations such as borders, resize
handles, and close, minimize and maximize buttons. It also moves
the window when the user tells it to.
If you want to experience X without any window manager, just use a
.xinitrc that doesn't load one. All X windows will open on top of
each other in the upper left-hand corner: you won't be able to click
to change focus or to raise one window above another: the last one
opened will stay on top.
I think that shows one of the huge advantages of quartz-wm -- people
who aren't specifically looking to run a different window manager
tend to forget that there's still one there anyway. It does a
reasonable enough job of making X windows blend in with the rest of
Aqua that you can largely forget that it's there.
For my part I much prefer trying to make X windows look and behave
like everything else on my Mac -- after all, it's a Mac that happens
to have UNIX under the hood; rather than trying to make my Mac run
like a UNIX box.
Different strokes for different folks, after all.
John Francini
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