davej@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (10/02/87)
Hi! I would like to get comments on this problem: How good can a window manager be? -------------------------------- Suppose I am interested in having windows of the following type: An X-window which has lot of other subwindows. I have a function to resize this composite window. The function also updates the process data for the main window and all the subwindows. The function knows how to maintain relative sizes of all sub-windows. Now suppose lot of unrelated processes have such windows floating around. Question is: ------------ How can a window manager resize this composite window and also update the private data of the relevant process. Assuming I don't want to have resize menus for every process (or window). Solution I am thinking of: To always have a window manager process. On the selection of a resize option have the window manager signal the relevant process. Now the process getting the signal can do resize in whatever way it wants to do. I would appreciate getting comments. Do the existing window manager address this problem? If yes how do they solve it? thanks, yogesh gaur%uicsrd@a.cs.uiuc.edu