Re: X11 source code: structure, building
Re: X11 source code: structure, building
- Subject: Re: X11 source code: structure, building
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:10:08 PST
- Comments: In-reply-to Grant Jacobs <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:04:19 -0800."
> Just a loose thought (and I hope I'm reading this right!). That X and
> other applications are having to "fake it", suggests to me the
> windows API needs something more. Are you able to ask the windows
> management people for a (private) API / option that allows an
> application to request that each window behave as an application
> would in terms of window management? It seems to me that the "real"
> code is there already in the windowing side of things, its just you
> have to "fake it" to get to do its thing and that this would be a
> more straight-forward solution? In any event it could solve the
> problem once in the window manager rather than several times in each
> application--?
The word "application" is overused in this discussion. I still don't
think what you suggest would work, as many X11 clients (like Gimp) open
several X windows which are all part of the same "application". Best,
perhaps, would be to have the X11 WM (quartz-wm) intervene to do this
-- it has the ability to know which windows come from which client
connections, in an X11-specific way that the Apple WM doesn't really
have access to, so can sort them into "applications".
Bill
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