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Article #24013Re: Which window manager is up?
From: der Mouse
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 06:23
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 06:23
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> Does anybody know how to tell which window manager is running? You can't tell. You can't even tell *whether* a window manager is running, at least not reliably. > For Motif there is a XmIsMwmRunning function, but what about twm? > tvtwm? olwm? Some or all of those may provide some way to guess whether the WM is running or not, but any such way can make mistakes (I feel sure XmIsMwmRunning, for example, can be fooled). Why do you care? You shouldn't care what window manager is running; if you think you do you are probably trying to solve the wrong problem. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Which window manager is up? Message-ID: <9106210623.AA06713@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> Date: 21 Jun 91 06:23:00 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 19