Hi, If you try to port any X based Window Manager you will find a lot of problems because the way X works is completely different to DFB. They were designed with different paradigms in mind.
I had a look at different WM, the ones that I think were more suitable for being ported: WindowMaker, Blackbox, Openbox and Matchbox. Since Matchbox was designed for PDAs it seemed the better choice, but at the end all of them have the problem of being designed for X. Mike Emmel had a similar problem with Metacity: http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2006-November/002455.html DFB has a windowing system that could be a good starting point for a WM. I'm interested in giving it a try. Regards, Pedro Aguilar > hi, > i am trying to port the matchbox window manager which is designed > specifically for the embedded environment and ran int a lot of conceptual > issues. As I posted earlier, i tried to send these event through a socket > and then tried to use the current dfb api's to manage windows. But the > problem is that both the default window manager and my WM are handling the > events and after a period of time I find either more than one window in > focus or no window in focus at all. > Can someone plz throw some light on this? > > also, si it possible to disable the default WM in DFB? > any recommendation/tip? > > > > > Regards > ARviND AyyangaR > _______________________________________________ > directfb-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev > _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
