Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:22:27 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: John Michelini <mick3@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Window managers Message-ID: <3974A063.9F4FFD44@acuson.com> References: <3973D853.9DC0A4D9@ibm.net>
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John Michelini wrote: > > Hi All, > > Does anyone know where I could begin reading about how to DEVELOP window > managers? Lots of info on installing/figging, but nothing on the > architecture. I'm actually in the middle of writing one myself. Information on writing window managers is pretty scarce. Your two main sources of info will be O'Reilly's "Xlib Programming Manual" and the actual source code of different WMs. Look over the source for some simple yet clearly written window managers first. aewm is a good one written in C, and Sapphire is a good one written in C++ (actually, Sapphire is heavily based on aewm). wm2 is also nice. Window managers don't actually do a heck of a lot, but what they do is not immediately obvious or straightforward. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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