Running Xwin in passive mode

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Tue May 6 16:40:00 GMT 2003


Richard,

Yes, we should be doing better checking to make sure that another window 
manager is not already running before we start the internal window manager.

Harold

Richard Campbell wrote:
>>XWin -multiwindow
>>
>>You must NOT run a seperate window manager, such as twm, etc.  (Be sure 
>>to comment it out if you use startxwin.bat or one of the other scripts).
> 
> 
> This confused me for while, because the server does work this way, if a
> little
> flakily (it's more obviously wrong with, say, WindowMaker than with twm,
> since 
> twm doesn't do a whole lot).
> 
> -Richard.



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