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Re: New rootless mode


Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:

> Hi, guys.
>
> I'm writing code related mwextwm. Temporally I added -internalwm
> option. It  detects another window manager, and automatically it
> switches on/off built-in window manager. There are duplicated code for
> -rootless and -multiwindow and -mwextwm. This will merge those three
> mode.
>
> I have to clean-up, debug and test more. But I want to know direction
> of this patch before. How do you think?
>
> 1. Add -internalwm option? (more better naming?)

-internalwm is actually -multiwindow?

> 2. Replace -rootless and -multiwindow with this.
> or something else.

I'd keep the options (at least their names) for backward compatibility.

BTW: Torrey wanted to change a rootless definition in fb.h
https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1737

Can you please take a look? I don't think the change will break anything
but I've not the complete insight on the code.

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