On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Worse, it appears each of the window managers has a different scheme for
doing this, and I've seen no indication that it's occured to any of them to
standardize. :(
But the freedesktop.org site indicates there is some effort to standardize. Maybe in 10 years. :-)
I hope I'm wrong.
You are not wrong, AFAIK. I'm not a full-time Linux user, anymore, however as long as I've used UNIX, there has always been different Window Managers in use.
The Window Manager is a significant layer on top of X Windows that adds all desktop and window management functionality. X Windows without a window manager appears to be an empty grey stippled screen with a cursor. Launch an X Windows app with no window manager running and it will have no window frame, and no controls.
Window Mgr (KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, fvwm, twm, afterstep, ...) | X Windows (XFree86) | Linux OS
I have some things to deploy to Linux and just finding this basic info has
eaten more time than something this trivial deserves. Once I find the magic
recipe for file associations, icon assignments, and putting an alias in the
Start menu, I'll post a summary of instructions at my Rev page.
For what Window manager though? You have to pick one window manager, e.g. KDE - K Desktop Environment, and figure out how to do it for that window manager. There is not, and probably never will be, one way for all Linux machines. Because who knows what Window Manager the user will be running.
KDE is used in Lindows (I think) and several other Linux distros. Sun Solaris is going to have (already has?) a Gnome variant. Redhat probably comes with KDE and Gnome but don't know what the default is anymore.
Unfortunately most of the people in a position to fix this mess- and standardize the Window Managers- are people who just use the Window Manager as a vehicle for arranging tens of xterm console windows on their screen, and probably don't use file associations at all themselves- just use the shell for launching X Windows apps with a filename, or with command line options. :-(
Command line is king as far as UNIX developers, and a lot of users, are concerned.
Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com
what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco
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