Multi-window design rationale

[Kensuke Matsuzaki]

Joe Krahn wrote:
> Why is multi-window mode designed as an "internal window manager" 
> instead of an external Win32-aware external WM? It seems to me that the 
> advantages of an internal WM are no different from an internal WM on a 
> normal X server.
> 
> I think it would be less of a hack for an X-Client WM to make Win32 
> calls than is having WM code embedded into X. Are there important 
> reasons it was done differently?
> 
> Joe

Probably your idea is right.

When I wrote multi-window mode, I don't know X extension mechanism.
So I embedded window manager into X server to send messages via internal 
message queue.

Mwextwm enables an external wm. But it has some problem in 
synchronization between X and Windows. Bug fix or redesign is needed.

  zakki
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