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 12:01:36 -0700
Actually, this discussion is more concerning the 'minimise' function. It
slipped into the 'close' function through careless use of terminology on
my part.
So, no, I don't really want to close the application or the window. My
mistake; sorry.
I think minimising should be done only by the window manager with no
action on the part of the application. Of course, the application should
know about it, so the window manager should send a signal or some such
notification, to that effect.
Max.
Randy Ford wrote:
On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 12:30 PM, Max Waterman wrote:
Right. I, er, 'dislike' this behaviour. If I ask the window manager to
close a window, *it* should close it, not the application running in
the window.
When you click on the close button on the title of a window, you are
dealing with the window manager, not the app. The same is true if you
use a resize handle, maximize button, etc.: you are asking the window
manager to resize the window. Of course, in both cases, the window
manager will ask the app to do so. That way, the app can decide if it
needs to clean up before it closes the window, or, in the case of
resize, if it wants to allow the resize, and if it needs to move/resize
items in the window to handle the new size.
I believe that you are wanting to kill the windows connection to the X
server, not just close the window. Some windows managers provide a
mechanism to ask the X server to kill connections, but, since it may
have unintended effects, many don't. You can also use xkill(1) yourself
to ask the X server to kill the window. If you really want it to look
like quartz-wm is killing the connection, you can fool yourself by
adding xkill to the applications menu. Without parameters, it will ask
you to point and click on the window whose connection you wish to kill.
randy.
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