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Re: Multi-window design rationale
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:19:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Multi-window design rationale
- References: <43138D72.5070800@nc.rr.com>
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Joe Krahn wrote:
> Why is multi-window mode designed as an "internal window manager"
> instead of an external Win32-aware external WM? It seems to me that the
> advantages of an internal WM are no different from an internal WM on a
> normal X server.
>
> I think it would be less of a hack for an X-Client WM to make Win32
> calls than is having WM code embedded into X. Are there important
> reasons it was done differently?
You're not the only one to think so. ISTR that there was a multiwindow
external WM mode, where the multiwindow mode was implemented as a separate
WM. Kensuke was working on it -- you should be able to find the
discussions in the archives searching for "mwextwm".
HTH,
Igor
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