Re: Question about WindowMaker

[Stefan Bidi]

WindowMaker is a comletely separate project from GNUstep and is coded solely in C.  GNUstep and GNUstep-based application don't need it and it doesn't need GNUstep.  You can just as well use another window manager, such as Etoile's Azalea (based on Openbox) or Metacity (the GNOME window manager).  The look is similar, I guess that's why someone would think they go hand-in-hand, but the feel is completely different.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Omar Campos <megathodik@gmail.com> wrote:

I've noticed a lot of talk recently about WindowMaker on this list. I admit I haven't used it much (except on older versions of Cygwin and I think, some very old versions of Redhat Linux, back from before the creation of the Fedora distro. My question is, (please excuse my ignorance) does the WindowMaker used in GNUStep implement an X Server?  If it does, that is a powerful feature. Also, is WindowMaker implemented completely inside GWorkspace, or would there there be need to download/compile something else?

Sincerely,
Omar Campos Rivera

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