On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 05:02:32PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2021-01-01 19:07, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > It is that intermediate window manager that was responsible for border > > sized and so forth. It couldn't draw the borders -- it wasn't attached > > to a screen. It just told the server what to draw. > > Yes, of course. That is what I meant. Nonetheless, the _server_ (ie. the > Xorg daemon) is the ultimate source of truth on the locations on > windows. The WM asks Xorg for that information.
Make sense. Things are not as clear-cut these days as to who dies what whan they're all on the same computer. > > I contributed code to openbox - be careful who you're talking to :-P Nice. My ancient experience with X was working on the team developing UIM/X in the days before Linux. I spent some time reading a manual caalled something like ICCCCC (maybe ICCCM?) about communications between these various network components, though I never had to do any coding directly with that communication. I remember once working with a really charming little X terminal. I no longer know what model it was. Hard to find such a thing nowadays, but I use my laptop as one when I want to run elsewhere. Software really isn't kind to using it via networked ssh -X these days. Running Chromium on a remote machine is terrible when it does animated scrolling. It transmits all those successive bitmaps one by one and doesn't look animated at all, just slow. -- hendrik > > -- > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
