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71 lines
3.9 KiB
PHP
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<title>Window Maker: News</title>
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<h3>Introduction</h3>
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<p>This manual describes the usage and configuration of the WindowMaker window manager. It is intended for both users
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who never used the X Window System and for users who have experience with other window managers.</p>
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<p>How to Read this guide If you never have used a X window manager, you should read all of this guide, as it contains
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detailed instructions for new users.</p>
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<p>Text in sans serif font, indicate instructions you must follow to accomplish a given task. If you're out of time (or
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patience), you should at least read text in these parts.</p>
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<p>You can ignore the text in Extra Bindings boxes while you're getting familiar with WindowMaker. Once you've got
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familiar with it, you can read the text in these boxes to learn more ways to accomplish tasks.</p>
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<h1>1.1 What is a window manager?</h1>
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<p>If you come from the Windows or MacOS world, you might be confused about all these things like window managers, X
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windows etc.</p>
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<p>In the Unix world, the task of providing a graphical user interface (GUI) is normally divided by 3 different
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components:</p>
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<p>the window server; the window manager and the user interface toolkit. The window server is standard and is usually
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the X Window System or some vendor provided compatible version of it. The X Window System, or X for short, is a window
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server. It's function is to provide a portable and high-level access to devices like keyboard, mouse and video display.
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It allows applications to show graphical information on the display through rectangular areas called windows.</p>
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<p>Most user interface objects, like buttons, menus and scrollers are made of windows. The top level windows displayed
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by applications are named windows as well. These objects are not provided by the window server. These must be made by
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the application program or by the user interface toolkit.</p>
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<p>For more information, read the manual page for X(1) and the documentation for Xlib.</p>
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<p>The primary function of the window manager is to control the layout of top level windows on screen. WindowMaker is a
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window manager. It provides a titlebar and a resizebar to change window layout, application menus to launch
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applications and execute special commands, application icons, miniwindows and an application dock. They will be
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explained in more detail in the following chapters.</p>
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<p>The user interface toolkit is a library or collection of libraries that provide an API for application developers to
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program the interfaces for their applications. Toolkits generally provide controls like buttons, menus, radio-buttons
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etc to be used for program interaction. There are currently many of these toolkits available for X. Motif
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â„¢, OpenLook â„¢, and Athena are examples of toolkits.</p>
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<p>All other features normally found in other operating systems, like file managers, are implemented as separate
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programs and are not directly related to the window manager.</p>
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