Re: Running Xwin in passive mode

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Richard,

Yes, we should be doing better checking to make sure that another window 
manager is not already running before we start the internal window manager.

Harold

Richard Campbell wrote:
> > XWin -multiwindow
> >
> > You must NOT run a seperate window manager, such as twm, etc.  (Be sure 
> > to comment it out if you use startxwin.bat or one of the other scripts).
>
>
> This confused me for while, because the server does work this way, if a
> little
> flakily (it's more obviously wrong with, say, WindowMaker than with twm,
> since 
> twm doesn't do a whole lot).
>
> -Richard.