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Dumb question: so is this just a lightweight X11 WM or is it a brand new windowing system? Or just some sort of directfb hack-job?

• keeguon 15y ago
  Judging from the wikipedia page it says it's a new WM but looking here: http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/window_manager.git;a=tree http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/window... there's clearly some bits borrowed from x11.
  • bengoodger 15y ago
    It's not just a new X WM, though we do still use X (at the screen level). Basically, we render everything inside the X root window. It's all composited, using the same compositor we use for web content ("CC"). http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura <-- somewhat old, but you can get the gist. ChromeOS used to have an X window manager (which is what your link is pointing to, the code used in M18 and earlier). The cool thing about the new code is that it runs in Chrome, so it's much easier for more engineers to test and develop for, and it's also platform agnostic (since the only X interface is at the host layer). This means Windows developers like myself can work on ChromeOS WM features since I can effectively build and run the ChromeOS WM on Windows.
    • TazeTSchnitzel 15y ago
      Wow, that's a really cool idea! Hey wait, could you do that in Metro? Then we could have "Chrome OS" inside Windows 8...
• cududa 15y ago
  It's a new windowing manager.