Re: why run any window manager?
Re: why run any window manager?
- Subject: Re: why run any window manager?
- From: "Dave Williss" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:19:15 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Ford" <email@hidden>
To: "Elwood C. Downey" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: why run any window manager?
> 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.
>
> randy.
Yes, I think the point the original poster was missing is that the thing
that
makes Apple's X11 have the Quartz look-and-feel is quartz-wm, which
/is/ a window manager. If you didn't run any, you would get no window
borders or titles or anything.
A better way to phrase the question might have been "why run any /other/
window manager?"
That is the question I've seen other replies answer, and I agree. Many
people
have a window manager of choice. They're highly configurable a lot of X11
users configure the heck out of them.
-- Dave Williss
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for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup
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