On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > I'm trying to work out what the intended purpose of x-window-manager is. > > This is prompted by bug 194195. > > wdm thinks that x-window-manager should provide an X session with a way > to launch applications and so on. > > xfwm4 ships as an alternative to x-window-manager because it's a window > manager. However all the menuing, panel, other bits and bobs are > provided in other components of XFce. > > Basically I want to know if xfwm4 should be saying it's an alternative > to x-window-manager - given it provides the positioning, window border > bits - or if more is needed in order to satisfy being x-window-manager. > > I read policy but it didn't really seem to specify much just gave points > for different bits. There's a technical definition of "window manager"; that is, one you can look at the source code so as to make the determination, but off the top of my head I don't know where that is. It may be in the ICCCM. -- G. Branden Robinson | It may be difficult to to determine Debian GNU/Linux | where religious beliefs end and branden@debian.org | mental illness begins. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Elaine Cassel
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