The issues that arose over the six or seven years were various and
particular to each application that some customer was dependent upon.
One class of problems you could describe as a clash between window
managers, Windows and X . This could easily occur for modal popup
windows, override redir
billh wrote:
Any discussion of internal vs external window management cannot take
place without acknowledging the fact that we are talking about XWindows
operating within another window system, Cygwin/X. The immediate fact
here is that any action that a window manager takes that is synchronous
Any discussion of internal vs external window management cannot take
place without acknowledging the fact that we are talking about XWindows
operating within another window system, Cygwin/X. The immediate fact
here is that any action that a window manager takes that is synchronous
to the actio
What is the history of internal versus external Win32 WMs? It seems that
Cygwin/X is favoring the internal WM, even though the external WM is a
better fit to the X server design.
I was looking into adding some NET_WM/EWMH features (mainly icons for
now), and realized that most things have to b
