From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 10:21:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A4E1552E for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:21:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21945 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:21:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:21:03 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912151821.TAA21945@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons extension: "propellers" Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote in list.freebsd-current: > In message <199912151519.QAA28467@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver Fromme writes: > : 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. > > That's not entirely true. The X server does not contain a window > manager at all. It doesn't implement any of the ICCCM required for > window managers. Right, that's why I wrote it in "quotes". > There is no placement management, no redirection of windows, no > visibility management or anything of the sort in the X server. It > just has mechanisms which allow one to do these things. "Tools, not > rules," being the motto from long ago... Exactly. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message