Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com):
> My ancient experience with X was working on the team developing UIM/X in
> the days before Linux. I spent some time reading a manual caalled
> something like IC (maybe ICCCM?) about communications between these
> various network components,
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 05:02:32PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2021-01-01 19:07, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > It is that intermediate window manager that was responsible for border
> > sized and so forth. It couldn't draw the borders -- it wasn't attached
> > to a screen. It just told the se
On 2021-01-01 19:07, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> It is that intermediate window manager that was responsible for border
> sized and so forth. It couldn't draw the borders -- it wasn't attached
> to a screen. It just told the server what to draw.
Yes, of course. That is what I meant. Nonetheless, th
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 12:22:50PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2021-01-01 15:05, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > This kind of remapping, and others, such as managing window borders,
> > is done by the window manager in X. The window manager is a separate
> > process, doesn't need to be present, an
On 2021-01-01 15:05, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> This kind of remapping, and others, such as managing window borders,
> is done by the window manager in X. The window manager is a separate
> process, doesn't need to be present, and can even run on a separate
> machine from the client and/or server.
I
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:52:52AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-12-31 12:21, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > >
> > > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could have
> > > been made. If I were the project
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 04:38:05PM +, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could
> have been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd
> do is uncouple keyboard, mouse and video from each other.
On 2020-12-31 12:21, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could have
> > been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd do is
> > uncouple keyboard, mouse and video fro
Hendrik Boom wrote:
It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could
have been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd
do is uncouple keyboard, mouse and video from each other. Why X has
anything to do with keyboard or mouse is beyond me.
>>
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:21:47PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> >
> > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could have
> > been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd do is
> > uncouple keybo
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:39:21PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:21:47 -0500
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could
> > > have been made. If I
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:21:47 -0500
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> >
> > It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could
> > have been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd
> > do is uncouple keyboard,
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>
> It didn't have to be this way. In 2020, better alternatives could have
> been made. If I were the project manager, the first thing I'd do is
> uncouple keyboard, mouse and video from each other. Why X has anything
> to do with keyb
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