"MURRAY, Paul" wrote:
>
> > > screen real estate. Is there an X desktop environment out
> > there that is
> Cool. What role does a window manager serve? As far as I can make out, X
> enables an app to get "a rectangular area" and paint on it, and manages
> rectangular areas overlapping one another.
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> or similar? Or does a window manager provide facilities without which
> netscape cannot run?
Not an expert either, but I think the window manager does a lot more.
Netscape (or any x program) will run without a window manager, you just
won't be able to resize or move any windows. Click on your root window
(background) won't give a menu either. You can run X without a window
manager by just not including one in your .xinitrc.
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Kervin Pierre.
