Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Windows Linux-style interface

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Adam Procter wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for this info.  It is very interesting, but I'm not sure exactly
> > what rootless and rooted mean.  Maybe if you gave an example of something
> > that could be done rootless but not rooted I would understand better.
> 
> Basically in a rooted setup, all X windows are drawn as subwindows of one
> big X window, which is The X Desktop.

...and thatone big X window can be fullscreen on the Mac or under cygwin 
(if memory sereves)

> So when X is running on top of another windowing system, it kind of
> feels like VMware or VNC or what have you -- a separate desktop in a
> box.

I'm guessing that this is sometimes what you want, of course.  I think my
single biggest interface gripe with both Windows Whatever and Aqua 
currently is the lack of virtual space on the desktop (I like a 3x3 set-up
where I can scoot back and forth from bash to emacs to a browser to matlab 
to...).  But if you run such an environment in a (full-screened) window, 
then it looks and feels just the same as "the real thing".
 
jking

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