On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 07:12:14PM -0700, Roger Cruz wrote: > > Could someone tell me if Wine has a built-in Window Manager of its own or > does it count on the host's window manager for such things as window > hierarchy (parent-child relationships), clipping, move, resize, iconify, > etc? I want to run Wine on an environment which lacks X and I have been told > conflicting information on whether I need to write my own window manager. It > has always been my impression that Wine does all the window management so it > must have a Windows window manager built-in.
In Desktop Mode Wine does its own window management. You can test it by setting desktop mode in winecfg. ;) > I'm interested in knowing that if I remove the X11 driver from Wine, whether > I will have to also provide my own window manager or whether what is in Wine > is sufficient. If there is a window manager in Wine, what type of > functionality does it require from whatever I chose to replace X11 with? Then you will need to write your own display engine first, which will be a bit harder than the window manager part. (Not sure how much additional work you will need to get the desktop managed mode in.) ciao, Marcus
