Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!langz From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: X-Windows on the Amiga? Message-ID: <2022@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Dec 87 20:48:11 GMT References: <4830001@hpiacla.HP.COM> <36347@sun.uucp> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 22 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 "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the only misfortune is to do it solemnly" --Michel de Montaigne