From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as the desktop? Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:00:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1141556444.327691.18411.nullmailer@totoz-linux.gnu-rox.org> References: <1141324201.426797.258020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <87fylxh1z6.fsf@www.williamxu.com> Reply-To: zedek@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141556493 31184 80.91.229.2 (5 Mar 2006 11:01:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 11:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 12:01:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFqzT-0004Mq-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:01:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFqzZ-0003rE-CC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFqzL-0002yG-DB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFqzH-0002Y8-Q4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFqzH-0002XW-MS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.41.184.169] (helo=smtp.gnu-rox.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FFr1J-0006ae-Ip for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from totoz-linux.gnu-rox.org (unknown [10.0.0.5]) by smtp.gnu-rox.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AD048BD13; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:08:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 18412 invoked by uid 1001); Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:00:44 -0000 Original-To: William Xu In-reply-to: <87fylxh1z6.fsf@www.williamxu.com> (message from William Xu on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:53:01 +0800) User-Agent: RMAIL/GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33543 Archived-At: From: William Xu "gamename" writes: > I normally run emacs inside a vnc session with "blackbox" and the > desktop manager. Is there any way to simply use Emacs as the desktop > manager instead? I found this, http://www.nongnu.org/xwem/, but only for XEmacs. I haven't tried it myself, as i don't use XEmacs. I discussed with XWEM original author a while back and adding GNU Emacs support was on his todo list. I do not know if the project is still maintained though. I also read yesterday that someone on the sawfish mailing list wanted to have some kind of interaction between sawfish and GNU Emacs. At last, ion3 comes with mod_ionflux which has now his GNU Emacs module. Mod_ionflux allows one to (remotely or not) control ion3: really neat. Xavier