On Sep 10, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 18:28, Richard L. Hamilton <email@hidden> wrote:
…that is, why can't it provide the same resizing behavior that other windows enjoy?
It could, it just hasn't been done yet. (There is no Lion-specific version of XQuartz as yet.)
(Of course, were it possible to open quartz-wm, this might have been done by now.)
Sure, or I wouldn't be on this list. But Xquartz (server, libs, etc) != quartz-wm (although it may include a quartz-wm binary), and AFAIK, quartz-wm is _not_ open; at least, I haven't seen source to it, and as of 2008 at at least, quartz-wm was _not_ open:
Another Lion feature that would be interesting to see implemented (mostly in the window manager, but perhaps partly also in the X server) is the new approach to full-screen apps; I grant that might well be more difficult than the re-sizing changes.
I don't know if it's possible to have code that decides at runtime whether to use certain functionality that's only available on the latest OS version; or rather, I don't know how difficult that might be.
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