Skribent: Ian Zimmerman Dato: Til: dng Emne: Re: [DNG] Why X does keyboard and mouse.
On 2021-01-01 19:07, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> It is that intermediate window manager that was responsible for border
> sized and so forth. It couldn't draw the borders -- it wasn't attached
> to a screen. It just told the server what to draw.
Yes, of course. That is what I meant. Nonetheless, the _server_ (ie. the
Xorg daemon) is the ultimate source of truth on the locations on
windows. The WM asks Xorg for that information.
I contributed code to openbox - be careful who you're talking to :-P