Warner Losh wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme
>writes:
> : That's because X itself contains a very simple "windowmanager"
> : functionality, which focuses the window beneath the mouse
> : pointer. But when you have to access something which is behind
> : another window, you lose.
>
> That's not entirely true. The X server does not contain a window
> manager at all. It doesn't implement any of the ICCCM required for
> window managers.
Right, that's why I wrote it in "quotes".
> There is no placement management, no redirection of windows, no
> visibility management or anything of the sort in the X server. It
> just has mechanisms which allow one to do these things. "Tools, not
> rules," being the motto from long ago...
Exactly.
Regards
Oliver
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