Re: GNUstep & The Window Manager Problem

[Dennis Leeuw]

Nicolas Roard wrote:
> I don't know about the self-decorate windows state with the current cvs. 
> A few weeks
> ago it worked with Alex's patch. It's quite nice to have GNUstep libs in 
> control of the
> window's rendering (for theming, but also for proxy icons for instance).
> The problem though is that you can't move a frozen window -- as the 
> GNUstep app
> manage itself. So a bug is more annoying than usual. With wmaker it's 
> not _that_ annoying
> because you could always move a frozen window using keys, but well... 
> and that's the same
> thing with modal panels -- you can't move the background windows of the 
> app.
>
> A better solution perhaps would  be to have the window manager uses the 
> GNUstep code
>  to decorate the window. If I remember, Yen ju started a wm using -gui ?..

Yep, it was called StepBox and it did almost work...
If you need the code let me know.

Dennis Leeuw


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