cygwin XFree86 as windows window manager ?

darxus@chaosreigns.com darxus@chaosreigns.com
Mon Jun 12 07:04:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> I do not know about litesetp.  If it does not know X protocols, it
> will not be a good candidate because it would require adding code for
> X protocols.

Two people have responded similarly, so I was unclear.

I was not suggesting buidling the X protocolos into litestep.  I was
suggesting building the windows shell capabilities into XFree86.

I want enlightenment to handle my entire windows desktop.

( http://www.chaosreigns.com/desktops - shots of my desktop under linux)


On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> ... but it doesn't manage windows. Windows are managed on a lower level.

That's a shame.  And my memory would seem to agree.  I've seen the
explorer desktop shell crash while other apps continued to run on more
than one occasion.

If explorer (the desktop shell layer) were managing the windows, the
titlebars & control buttons would have gone away, and they didn't.

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