Re: why run any window manager?
Re: why run any window manager?
- Subject: Re: why run any window manager?
- From: Max Waterman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:36:22 -0700
I have noticed some behaviour on my Mac with the regular Apple window
manager (not sure what it's called...Aqua/Quartz/?). As some other window
managers, it doesn't seem to manage windows. If an application crashes
and I can't kill it, I want to get rid of it's window, so I try to hit
the 'minimize' button. On X11 systems, the window will close, but on
Apple's window manager, it won't. It seems like the windows manage
themselves - to some degree at least.
Or am I missing something?
Max.
Sean Ahern wrote:
Elwood C. Downey wrote:
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?
Well, the "Window Manager" for Quartz windows doesn't understand how to
interoperate with the X11 protocol. See another recent thread for more
discussion on this.
From a technical point of view, it's certainly possible to *not* run a
window manager under X11. But you won't be able to move/resize your
windows in that case. :-)
-Sean
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