Sujet : Re: getting the most out of TWM
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 16. Jul 2024, 02:16:45
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:34:25 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
I kept wondering how a process that ran under the GUI could be the
parent of everything else that ran under that GUI, including obviously
the window manager.
It's not the parent, it "holds" the X session. In the case of "exec
xterm", when xterm exits, the x session ends.
Except it didn’t. In that example, the X server kept running, but there
was no window manager or any other X clients to actually let you do
anything with it.