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From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X-Windows on the Amiga?
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Date: 13 Dec 87 20:48:11 GMT
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In article <36347@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>A[n X] window server would be nice, although don't expect to run any Intuition
>programs on it.

How about running the X server and Workbench concurrently.  There's no reason
that you could not run Workbench as a process that is not a client of the X
server.  Don't forget, X does not require that every process running on the
machine be an X client.  Just have a separate screen for Amiga X, then open a
backdrop window to serve as the root window for the X server.

On another note, it would be very easy to write a window manager that would
even make X look a lot like workbench (standard window gadgets where they
normally are, etc), so there's no reason Amiga X users would have to learn a
radically different user interface.  There's always the option of running uwm
or any of the other existing wms, but X is deliberately no "religious" about
user interface for the express purpose of supporting diverse systems.


Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner      langz@athena.mit.edu    ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz
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