Subject: Re: emulating Debian GNU/Linux?
To: Micha? Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/30/2003 21:34:50
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:21:20PM +0200, Micha? Pasternak wrote:
> Richard Rauch [Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:55:04AM -0500]:
> > Granted, not many people run X without a window manager for extended periods
> > of time.
>
> Well, I've seen DEC/OSF WM-less X11 software powering MRI equipment at the
> hospital during my studies. For those, who don't belive X can be useable
> without windowmanager, try man XCreateWindow...
Ah, I'm sorry. I thought that you were advocating that X-using applications
should depend on some "WM" package. Sorry for misunderstanding you.
(I don't run without X for long, but I occasionally do kill off twm in
order to run another window manager. (^&)
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