From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as the desktop? Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:40:57 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <877j78pfqe.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> References: <1141324201.426797.258020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <87fylxh1z6.fsf@www.williamxu.com> <1141556444.327691.18411.nullmailer@totoz-linux.gnu-rox.org> <878xrpt753.fsf@www.williamxu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141606854 16028 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2006 01:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 01:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 06 02:00:51 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 1FG45c-0003yQ-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:00:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG45j-00020D-UO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FG3zy-00013a-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FG3zt-0000ig-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:54:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG3zt-0000hh-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FG421-0000GN-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FG3yM-0001Qi-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:53:14 +0100 Original-Received: from e178042154.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.42.154]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:53:14 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178042154.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:53:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178042154.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JIs0JQeZJX0wKSYVE9lhyVxWSGk= 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:33552 Archived-At: On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:20:40 +0800 William Xu wrote: > What i'm thinking of now is that, with Emacs being the WM, we could, > control other applications just like a buffer or a mode in Emacs. For > instance, when there is a firefox, and an Emacs, "C-x 2" can split the > screen into two parts, one of them is firefox. This way, it would be > very convenient and consistent to manage applications running outside > Emacs. I use ratpoison, with C-q as the prefix for window manager commands: C-q C-x 2, C-q C-x 3, C-q C-x 1, C-q C-x b, ... But it's a pain when you need to run applications that don't like to be managed this way (like gimp). There are other window managers with a similar philosophy that can deal with such applications (e.g. ion or wmi). Or like me, you just run FVWM in a Xnest window. David