Re: FVWM: Can fvwm swallow itself?

From: Nathan Froyd <nathan.froyd_at_rose-hulman.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 01:30:14 -0500

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:16:54PM +0800, Anthony Heading wrote:
> 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?

If I understand what you're saying, you might want to check out ctwm, which
allows a "captive" window manager -- basically another ctwm running in an X
window. Not sure how it accomplishes this, though.

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Received on Mon Mar 27 2000 - 00:35:09 BST