[Gllug] thin desktops for X ... flwm http://blackbox.alug.org/

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Steve Nicholson said:
> "Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any
> others.

They reimplemented Xlib?!?!

> compliant, and supports multiple desktops and some support for KDE (but
> none for GNOME).

Which is strange; the wm hints are very similar for KDE versus GNOME,
and it takes very little code to handle them (fvwm's GNOME support comes
to 8Kb of object code... but fvwm doesn't support KDE yet, whoops.)

Maybe blackbox simply can't do some of the things that the wm hints
require, so it's skipped out on all the hint support? (Bit of a cop-out,
if that's the reason. But it may be as simple as `blackbox's author
doesn't use GNOME and nobody's contributed code yet'; I dunno.)

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