Re: Help on creating a Window Manager
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:53:07 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heather Stern) wrote: Those would include aewm (which I think had the same intention - a pure ICCCM rendition), ratpoison (avoiding fat libraries and I missed the original message so perhaps this was already mentioned, but I tried one called wm2 which is almost the most primitive window manager possible - you can resize close windows and bring up a menu to launch Xterm. Changing anything requires hacking the source, there are no configurable features. You can apt-get it on Debian. Mark ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Help on creating a Window Manager
Hey Peter, I had your same wishes a while ago and the same proble struck me: the lack of of information about it. One good thing is that all window managers are open source, so what I did was to download all the source I could and investigate how they work. I suggest you the same. Look for the small ones, with the few features and try understand how they work. Getting a copy of the X Window API might also help. I'm sorry I can't really help much, but the truth is that I dropped this little project of mine and if I have any more information I will send to you. best rgds, Pedro Teixeira On Sunday 31 August 2003 8:59 pm, Peter Poulsen wrote: hi I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list that is more suited for questions related to the use of xlib (as far as I understand this mailing list is conserned with the development of xfree, rather than the use of xlib)? ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Help on creating a Window Manager
Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Peter Poulsen wrote: I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list that is more suited for questions related to the use of xlib (as far as I understand this mailing list is conserned with the development of xfree, rather than the use of xlib)? The main resources are the ICCCM, the EWMH, and the source code of other window managers. twm is small and simple to learn from, though doesn't support the newer EWMH spec. Don't try to read the WM chapter in the Nye book, it's mostly wrong. You'll find http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/ helpful, it has copies of most of these standards. -- Kevin ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Help on creating a Window Manager
hi I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list that is more suited for questions related to the use of xlib (as far as I understand this mailing list is conserned with the development of xfree, rather than the use of xlib)? -- Yours Peter Poulsen ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Help on creating a Window Manager
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Peter Poulsen wrote: I'm playing around with xlib, and is trying to make a window manager (just because I can ;-)). But the problem is that I need a little more information. Is there some good resources anybody know of? Also, is there a mailing list that is more suited for questions related to the use of xlib (as far as I understand this mailing list is conserned with the development of xfree, rather than the use of xlib)? The main resources are the ICCCM, the EWMH, and the source code of other window managers. twm is small and simple to learn from, though doesn't support the newer EWMH spec. Don't try to read the WM chapter in the Nye book, it's mostly wrong. Havoc ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
