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Window manager varietyWindow manager varietyPosted Apr 12, 2012 10:23 UTC (Thu) by cwng (guest, #74460)In reply to: Window manager variety by raven667 Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland
the window managers/compositors in Mac/Win come with and are not designed to be replaced by the end user. It'd be interesting to see if anyone has tried.
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Window manager variety Posted Apr 12, 2012 11:23 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Those are replacing what Windows calls the "shell" and what is commonly called Explorer. They don't, AFAIK, replace what we would call the Window Manager and what most people don't have a name for, because it can't be replaced.
Window manager variety Posted Apr 12, 2012 11:45 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
There were true window manager customizers. WindowBlinds is the most known: http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/screenshots...
I distinctly remember being able to do things like collapsing windows to title bars by triple-clicking or adding extra buttons to window titlebars.
Window manager variety Posted Apr 16, 2012 18:51 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] WindowBlinds was not a replacement window manager for Windows. It merely did some hackery to change some of the look and some behaviors and it always ran on top of the existing WM. Think of it more like a very-heavy theme. In the end things like window lists, window position and stacking order were still the same. In addition, it was awfully slow and memory hungry.
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