Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Path: utzoo!sq!news
From: news@sq.sq.com
Subject: Re: Prototype window mgr
Message-ID: <1989Aug30.162121.26825@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <"890829071938.76200.2050.EHL16-3"@CompuServe.COM> 
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 16:21:21 GMT
In article <"890829071938.76200.2050.EHL16-3"@CompuServe.COM>,
76200.2050@compuserve.COM (Joseph Pistritto) writes:
>        I will be writing a window manager to emulate using X to emulate an
> older process control system console (which used function keys for all its
> operations).  I will be using the mouse/trackball as well.  The system will
> run under HP/UX 6.5 with the HP release of Xwindows.  Is there a good
> prototype window manager lying around somewhere to learn how window managers
> work?  In particular, I will be needing to do non-standard things, like
> implement in the window manager, controls on the number of different windows
> allowed to be accessed, etc.

If you want "to learn how window managers work", I'd suggest the book "Xlib
Programming Manual" (Adrian Nye, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 0-937175-26-9;
you can order from the publisher by phone at 617-527-1392). It has a whole
chapter on how window managers work, and contains a complete but minimal
window manager as examples of how key operations work. The source to this
window manager is available for free by anonymous ftp or by UUCP from uunet
and probably other places by now.

Ian Darwin
ian@sq.com
