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In article <9106131641.AA19511@lyre.MIT.EDU> swick@athena.mit.EDU (Ralph Swick) writes:
>
>      xterm -geom `swmxlate -geom +100+200`
>
>So, the window manager is Trivial but the user&system have to do more work?

X only provides one way to set the grom., tvtwm makes user specifyed locations
relitave to the vert. root, that way you can have your .xinitrc (or .twmrc)
start things up off the current root.  In vtwm you can't start things relitave
to the vert. root window, just the current one.  This makes some things
easyer, some harder.  In vtwm how would I start up a xtank in the lower left
root no matter where my current root is?  What about starting xfoo in the
upper right root no matter what the current root is?

>Can anyone tell me why I should want to suffer through *wmxlate/vroot.h/
>non-interleavable_nailed_windows_and_un-nailed_windows rather than what
>seems to me to be the much more natural feeling provided by Williams
>and Edmondson's vtwm?

You can interleave sticky and non-sticky (nailed) windows.  You need to
set an option to do it (because it is slower that way).  I would prefer that
tvtwm would re-parent sticky windows to the vert. root only when needed, and
re-parent them back to the real root when possable, but I havn't been able
to figure out how to do that (yet).
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