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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
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Subject: Mac-style window managers in X?
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Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 13:46:00 EDT
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    2) possibly keeping track of all subwindow moves and resizes and manipulating
    the window hierarchy so as to imbed a newly created window inside a window-
    manager window providing the border controls.

This is essentially the right thing, and isn't as bad as you think.  There are
already several X11 managers that work this way.