On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Pete French <p...@twisted.org.uk> wrote: >> As you noticed, GWorkspace is not a windowmanager. GNUstep is capable of >> handling almost everything (it can even draw the window decorations by >> itself) but it neesd a window manager currently. > > Once upon a time I remember someone extracting the guts of a window > manager into a bundle so that any app could act as one. What became > of that idea ? It would be very nice indeed if Gworkspace could > act as a window manager too, and that would preseumably enable us > to fix all out focus problems, and not have to have it co-operating with > WindowMaker in a way that seems to almost work right, but sometimes does odd > things. > > How tricky is a X window manager anyway ? If GNustep is doing all the > decoration itself, plus providing a dock, then surely a very basic one > would suffice. That one which used to come with X back in the 80's (twm?) > that cant have been too big.
There is an window manager, Azalea, ported to GNUstep from OpenBox 3.0 in Etoile project. It works, but has memory leak. And I just don't have time to fix it. You can play with it if you want. I am also watching a new window manager called i3. It is written in XCB, a supposed replacement for xlib. XCB should be faster than xlib and can use cairo as backend. But it is still at very early stage. Regards Yen-Ju > > -pete. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Yen-Ju Chen Sent from Hsin-Chu, Hsz, Taiwan _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep