20 Jun
2003
20 Jun
'03
00:40
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:29, Tom Emerson wrote:
In the gorey technical details part, "the first program" that you run under the X environment becomes the window manager, even if it isn't suited for the task.
There is no rule that says the window manager has to be the first program run. As an example, try starting X with startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm That will give you an X with nothing running except the xterm, no window manager at all. Then in that xterm, run - for example - mwm, and witness the window decorations appear