Re: A request about XMMS and window management

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:47:40PM -0700, Spundun Bhatt wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:54, Haavard Kvaalen wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > 
> > > Would you please, *please*, *pretty please* consider putting BIG FAT
> > > statements on the XMMS web page, in the manual, man page, FAQ and
> > > whatever in a prominent place that ask your users to ask such questions
> > > on the XMMS site, instead of the window manager sites?
> > 
> > I'm sure we could add something to the faq.  I don't know how much that
> > would help though.  We don't get a lot of these questions, so I guess the
> > users instinctively go for the window manager.

> Where can I find a discussion on why xmms prefers to manage its windows
> its own way?

Since I am not associated with xmms, so I can only guess, but I
assume it is because of the skins.  A normal window manager title
bar would not fit any shaped skins and thus xmms has its own title
bar with its own buttons and manages window placement, layers,
stickiness etc. on its own.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^