The Chromium (and Chrome) browsers have (or had) a feature called
"application link" which does something similar to what you are asking
for. You browse to a site/page/app that you wish to make into an
"application", and then ask the browser to create an "application link".
In the background
On Lu, 02 dec 19, 19:09:55, Tomas Zubiri wrote:
> Hello, I'm mainly a browser user, the OS is a thin shell that I require to
> run a browser,
> I check my email in GMail, do my finances in google sheets, use whatsapp
> through a web interface, banking through a browser interface, etc...
>
> Is the
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 00:34:59 +0100
Nicolas George wrote:
> Charles Curley (12019-12-02):
> > But actually having multiple copies of the
> > same
> > program is a waste of memory space, and possibly of swap space.
> > This is why we write re-entrant code.
>
> This is not
Charles Curley (12019-12-02):
> But actually having multiple copies of the same
> program is a waste of memory space, and possibly of swap space. This is
> why we write re-entrant code.
This is not true with modern operating systems: code and read-only data
are shared between
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 19:09:55 -0300
Tomas Zubiri wrote:
> Is there a windows manager that would allow me to split a tab into a
> new window such that the new window is recognized as a separate
> application?
Ain't gonna happen. Many applications, including most browsers, can
manage multiple window
Tomas Zubiri (12019-12-02):
> Is there a windows manager that would allow me to split a tab into a new
> window
No, window managers cannot do that. Consider this: the application is
trying to draw in one of its subwindow, but the subwindow is no longer
there, it has been moved into another window:
6 matches
Mail list logo
