On Mon, March 21, 2011, Omar Campos wrote: > Fedora distro. My question is, (please excuse my ignorance) does the > WindowMaker used in GNUStep implement an X Server? If it does, that is a
No. Please bear in mind what an X server is supposed to do. WindowMaker is a window manager. To see what the difference between a window manager and an X server is you might want to consult wikipedia [1]. > powerful feature. Also, is WindowMaker implemented completely inside > GWorkspace, or would there there be need to download/compile something else? While the above is pretty much an RTFM question, it is probably worthwhile to point out the relationship between WindowMaker and GNUstep as well as recent activity on WM development. WindowMaker provides a GNUstep-like look-and-feel, but it is not even based on GNUstep (and of course not on GWorkspace!). However it is designed to allow good integration of GNUstep applications, like GWorkspace is one. While WindowMaker development had been pretty dead for quite a while (in fact, the application is very stable, so development was not strictly necessary), there has been quite a bit of initiative lately, Carlos Mafra maintains a git repo for bug fixes and also one for new WM features. I provide automatic Debian builds based on that code (see [2]). Cheers, M'bert [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager [2] http://www.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/pub/wmaker/ -- ----------- / http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org / ------------- =+= Ya dyshu - i znachit, ya lyublyu! Ya lyublyu - i znachit, ya zhivu! -- Vladimir Vysozkij _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
