From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 11: 9:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F78337C285 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@smallflower.com) Received: from smallflower.com (216-80-54-34.d.enteract.com [216.80.54.34]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA30935; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:09:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@smallflower.com) Message-ID: <3964CB8C.D39017A5@smallflower.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:10:20 -0500 From: john melesky X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Michelini Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Developing Window Managers References: <3964BEC0.DD6D11E@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, traditionally, you'd check out the source code for the old "uwm" (universal window manager), which you can snag from http://www.plig.net/xwinman/uwm.tar.gz also, if you know Python (or are willing to learn), there's PLWM (http://brugd.ctrl-c.liu.se/plwm/), which is more a collection of wm primitives than a complete window manager. it's designed to sort of "roll your own". regardless, http://www.plig.net/xwinman/ is a good site for info about the various window and desktop managers out there. -johnnnnnn John Michelini wrote: > > Where does one begin developing window managers? I am having a hard > time finding documentation on this topic. > > John > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message