On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:00:38AM +0200, Pedro Teixeira wrote:
> 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.
Those would include aewm (which I think had the same intention - a "pure" ICCCM
rendition), ratpoison (avoiding fat libraries and resembling screen's console
behavior), hackedbox (blackbox on a diet), oroboros (about 50k and themable
but no fancy parts), amaterus (gtk based otherwise source is tiny), and I
suppose twm but heck, that's getting downright featureful.
> 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
Well, if the point was only to understand, and you find that you do now,
then I suppose your experiment was a success :D
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