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If I’m not already very familiar with X, how am I supposed to know that?
by teucris 4y ago
If I’m not already very familiar with X, how am I supposed to know that?
- guerrilla 4y agoEvery line of code has paragraphs of text describing what it does.
- rbanffy 4y agoWe read it, but, still it's hard for someone with little experience with X window managers (fun story - I built a minimal graphical WM for the Apple II that fit in 1K) to have an idea. Also, I'm a visual thinker - nothing picks my curiosity about software like a nice screenshot.
- mlyle 4y agoThe purpose of this code is not to provide a useful WM. It's to illustrate the minimum, in case you want to play with it and become very familiar with X.
- ranger_danger 4y agoHow to draw my own window decorations is exactly what I'd be interested in learning.
- Avshalom 4y agoTwm, dwm or aewm might be good places to start for that
- rbanffy 4y agoI would expect their code to be written in ancient C. Probably not an easy read (I once tried to figure out how to use non-bitmap fonts by reading xterm's code - so I could help Paul Mattes in adding my font to x3270, but came out with a headache).