Re: Shouldn't a window manager has xserver as dependency ?
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:04:54AM +0200, aprekates wrote:
> sudo apt-cache depends twm
> twm
> Depends: menu
> Depends: libc6
> Depends: libice6
> Depends: libsm6
> Depends: libx11-6
> Depends: libxext6
> Depends: libxmu6
> Depends: libxt6
>
> $ sudo apt-cache show twm
> ....
> Provides: x-window-manager
> ....
> Description-en: Tab window manager
> twm is a window manager for the X Window System. It provides title bars,
> shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro
> functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and
> user-specified key and pointer button bindings.
>
> So my question is , shouldnt a window manager has the xserver as a
> depedency?
Why? There is no reason that the X server must be running on the same
host.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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