[Gambas-user] A window manager?

Christopher Brian Jack brian at ...1334...
Tue Feb 28 12:14:38 CET 2006


On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, frame down under wrote:

> Hi Guru.
>
> You can run almost any X program without a window manager, In fact
> i've coded a Point of Sale in Gambas 1.0.13 to behave just like that.
> However, you lose the ability to manage windows (duh!).
>
> 2006/2/28, GuruLounge - MailLists <maillists at ...1367...>:
> > I was doing a bit of poking around with my GDM sessions and added my
> > project to the list of window managers available.
> >
> > It seems I can run gambas projects as an Xsession.
> >
> > Now all I need to do is figure out how to add window controls to the
> > apps that I start so I can move and minimize things.
> >
> > Any ideas?

You may need to code a component to give your gambas programs low level
access to X's window manager API if you want your application to be
capable of functioning as a window manager and provide resize, move, grow,
shrink, maximize, minimize, close etc. functions to windowed applications
running within your Gambas "Window Manager" application.

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