On Thursday 19 June 2003 5:40 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:29, Tom Emerson wrote:
... "the first program" that you run ... becomes the window manager
There is no rule that says the window manager has to be the first
Hmmm... I stand corrected. Of course, "I no longer remember where I read it, but..." that was my understanding of how X worked. [this may have been a couple releases back as well]
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
I'll believe you for the moment, but I suspect there is a little bit of misdirection going on here by using xterm as an example. Basically, xterm lets you execute an arbitrary program [via a command line interface]; because of this, you can indeed start "a window manager" and all is well. I suspect that if you start with Evolution [which I'm guessing is what the original user did] you do NOT have the ability to execute an "arbitrary" program [i.e., evolution does not make a menu item or command option for such] and therefore you (effectively) cannot start a window manager of any sort -- kind of like finding a roadblock in the middle of your favorite shortcut to home from work (or school...) ;) -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net