cygwin XFree86 as windows window manager ?

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Mon Jun 12 07:15:00 GMT 2000


> > 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.


You are syggesting a whole new kind of X-server project.  You are welcome
to work on it and we would gladly merge your changes to source tree.

>
> I want enlightenment to handle my entire windows desktop.

Not clear!  Do you want elightment to manage Win32 and X desktops?
Not possible at present.  We will gladly accept new contributions.


Suhaib

>
> ( 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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