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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers"
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jack wrote in list.freebsd-current:
 > Today Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > I'm afraid that wouldn't work.  In order to run non-trivial X11
 > > apps, you _will_ need a full-blown X server, including X libs.
 > > You'll also need at least a very simple window manager (while
 > > xclock would probably work without, Netscape would certainly be
 > > pretty unusable). 
 > 
 > I just tried only netscape in my .xinitrc and it worked fine.

That's because X itself contains a very simple "windowmanager"
functionality, which focuses the window beneath the mouse
pointer.  But when you have to access something which is behind
another window, you lose.

And as I wrote, the window manager is the smallest problem of
his proposal.

Regards
   Oliver

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