Re: proposed addition to EWMH: _NET_WM_NORMAL_GEOMETRY

[Jim Gettys <jg laptop org>]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 21:28 -0700, Mark Tiefenbruck wrote:

> > And if a window can't handle being resized.. that's kind of funny. Are
> > your users switching/restarting their WM multiple times a second?
> 
> Consider this example. You're watching a movie with a fullscreen
> MPlayer. Your system receives a critical update to your window
> manager, and it needs to restart. Which should happen: a) MPlayer
> stays fullscreen and your window manager generally lets you focus on
> the movie, or b) MPlayer resizes, you see a bunch of windows getting
> reparented, and then MPlayer returns to fullscreen?
> 

This is a poor example.  Surely you can do better than this....  Window
managers should be able to run indefinitely, just as the X server.
                             - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child