FVWM: Can fvwm swallow itself?

From: Anthony Heading <anthony_at_magix.com.sg>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:16:54 +0800

Hi,
    It's been a long while since I read about X, so apologies if I'm
miles off track.

    I'm pondering over the design of an application with lots of
"windows" - a sort of gigantic configurable control panel.

    One route I've seen people taking is writing such windows as
widgets in some toolkit language (e.g. Tcl/Tk) and then writing a
custom widget control manager in that language.

    But I was reminded of an interview I saw last year with (I
think) Jim Gettys, saying that the capabilities of X to embed
windows had been much underused.

    Which reminded me further of fvwm buttons ability to swallow
windows, and I then *seemed* to recall that fvwm had the ability
to run inside itself: advertised as being useful for debugging.
But I can't find any reference to that ability now.

    So finally my query: is it possible/sensible to run fvwm
inside another window manager instance, controlling not the
display and the root window but instead a single large window,
swallowing and then managing all the top level windows of
my application?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Regards

Anthony
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Received on Sun Mar 26 2000 - 02:16:56 BST

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