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From: mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re: virtual roots
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Date: 16 Dec 90 07:38:08 GMT
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[ ...the virtual root mess... ]

> One big question is whether or not the virtual root model is the
> right way to go.  Specifically, are the things you use the virtual
> root for adequately or better taken care of by a rooms implementation
> builtin to a window manager?

Other posters have answered with a definite yes.

However, you asked the wrong question.  Instead, why not ask whether
there's anything tvtwm (say) does that you need virtual roots for?  I
can't see anything.  All the virtual root buys you is some programmer
convenience when writing the window manager[%].  There is no reason the
windows couldn't be direct children of the root, with the panning
implemented by moving them.  After all, it is entirely possible to
place a window entirely outside of the boundaries of its parent.

[%] As far as I can see.  What other benefits can the collective
    imagination of the net come up with?

					der Mouse

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