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Window manager

Posted Aug 11, 2011 14:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Window manager by nye
Parent article: The road to Enlightenment

Sawfish was also very extensible and flexible... very much unlike Metacity.

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Window manager

Posted Aug 11, 2011 18:56 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

I think, that was exactly the reason why Metacity was chosen.

<flame>
Let me introduce the first mock up of the coming GNOME 5:

----8<------
gboolean gnome (void)
{
return FALSE;
}
----8<-------

Still an early mock-up, but nearly complete feature-wise!
</flame>

Window manager

Posted Aug 13, 2011 2:34 UTC (Sat) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

That is not written in JavaScript, and hence is not at all accurate. :)