Re: wm2 and GNOME (was Re: Problem starting GNOME)

[Christian Schaller <frostking linuxrising com>]

There is a patch to blackbox available her witch makes Blackbox partially
GNOME-compliant, this link is:
http://jas.pspt.fi/~tkoskine/gnome/

Sincerely,
Christian Schaller

Preben Randhol wrote:

> William Allen <ballen@ms.com> writes:
>
> | Michael Rogers wrote:
> | >
> | > I've downloaded the ICE and xsmp docs from ftp.x.org to have a look
> | > at whether session management could be incorporated into wm2 without
> | > a complete rewrite. The wm2 source is so tiny it seems like a good
> | > place to start to make a minimalist GNOME wm. The other feature I'm
> | > curious about is MWM hints. I've been unable to locate any
> | > documentation on these other than the E code snippet on the GNOME
> | > website. Can anyone point me towards a simple explanation?
> | >
> |
> | It is my understanding that Blackbox is gnome-compliant. It is a
> | radically small and very fast WM. A little too minimal for my
> | taste, but for those so inclined, it seems to work well.
>
> >From the Blackbox site: http://blackbox.wiw.org/
>
> NOTE: Blackbox is NOT and probably WILL NOT include GNOME support. It
>    is my opinion that the GNOME Window Manager Spec needs to be
>    revised, as the current (quote) specification (post quote) seems to
>    be more implementation based. A near complete rewrite and
>    restructuring of Blackbox's internals would be necessary to
>    implement the (quote) specification (post quote) as is.
>
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