That's true, *sigh*, I know what you mean. Tho I can't quite understand
what this driving desire for a rootless X server is all about? To my
death, I'll never understand why people like the explorer window manager
over the X alternatives. I mean c'mon people, Windows Explorer as a
window manager sucks. Why would you want it to manage your X
applications? I don't know about most people, but I like the current way
X works, in fact I like the full screen even better. In fact I wish there
was a way to do the opposite of running X in rootless mode. If there were
only a way to get windows binaries to pop up inside X, then I could just
ditch this crummy explorer windows manager and use X full time. In fact,
on Darwin, I hate the window manager for Aqua. I'd much prefer to run
kde3 any day then to run that OpenSTEP look-alike.
Windows Explorer isn't a window manager. Windows Explorer is the file
manager. It also runs the taskbar, start menu, and desktop. All the
movement of windows is handled by the operating systemr. In X, the
window managers mainly handle the frames and moving the windows.
Various ones do menus, taskbars, desktops, but many leave those to other
processes.