On 6/28/23 4:35 PM, Chris Sorenson wrote:
That's not even possible anymore, it was way back in the day but now X just immediately exits if there's no window manager to communicate with,

Like Vito, I question the veracity of your claim.

I've not done it with a physical X11 (display) server in a while. But I have done this with a virtual X11 (display) server, a la. Xvnc, within the last year.

Like Vito I was using XTerm as the first X11 client (program) and launching other things therefrom. Or at least that's what I was trying to do. I quickly ran into the lack of any ability to manage windows and backed up and went a different direction.

But I distinctly remember spending a few minutes messing with using XTerm in X11 as a fancy terminal, with it's Sixel and ReGIS graphics support. }:-)

or, at least that's what happens with my distribution
(Slackware 15.0).
That seems like a distribution configuration ~> limitation to me.

I've found that there are MANY things that used to be relatively easy to do 10-20 years ago that contemporary distributions simply have no concept of providing flexibility to support or actively refuse to do anything but the top two mainstream DEs / WMs.



Grant. . . .

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