Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!LEVIATHAN.CS.UMD.EDU!ogata From: ogata@LEVIATHAN.CS.UMD.EDU (Jeff Ogata) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: output in icons Message-ID: <8806211610.AA15708@leviathan.cs.umd.edu> Date: 21 Jun 88 16:10:49 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 The xterm active icon feature in X10 was handled by xterm, not by the window manager. I'm told that this feature has been removed from xterm in X11, and that window managers are handling iconification these days. Which brings me to a point that has been bothering me for a while now... Why window managers? It seems to me that separating tasks from the clients such as window resizing and iconification, without giving clients full control of these actions, has caused a lot of headaches. I'm confused as to the actual utility of window managers. Couldn't all the functions of the window manager be handled by default widget code that the clients had more control over? Or something? Am I missing something obvious that only window managers can do adequately? - Jeff Ogata