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 12:25:44 -0700
Ok, that explains it, but, IMO, doesn't excuse it :)
And I guess that ends the discussion...
Max.
John Harper wrote:
the reason for this is that there is no separate window manager in OS X,
so each application must implement the event handling for its titlebar
itself (obviously, the code is in system libraries, but it runs in the
client process)
On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 11:26, Max Waterman wrote:
Ok, so how come the difference in X11 and Apple's window manager?
In X, if I instruct a window to be minimised, it is - immediately. The
app running in the window gets a signal, and can do appropriate stuff
if it needs to, but otherwise doesn't do anything.
With Apple windows, if an app freezes with it's window open, trying to
minimise the window makes no difference. This is the same behaviour on
Windows, IINM.
MAx.
John Harper wrote:
On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 10:30, 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.
there's no reliable way to do that, apart from deleting the X
connection of that window (which will usually kill the entire
application). That's why most programs elect to handle their own
deletion requests
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