From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as the desktop? Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:39:39 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <878xrqkkqc.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> References: <1141324201.426797.258020@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <8764mvkhw8.fsf@ulm.malte.spiess> <1141418052.997957.219500@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141686699 9778 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2006 23:11:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 07 00:11:37 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 1FGOrK-000786-9c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:11:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGOrJ-0002yf-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:11:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-10!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1CrT4adzwNFyMaprTi0Nb2y33tc= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137927 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:33570 Archived-At: "gamename" writes: > Malte Spiess wrote: >> "gamename" writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > 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? Window manager? >> So, do you only want to run Emacs or also other applications? > > Only emacs. If Emacs is the only app you want to run, and don't use more than one frame, then you can always run Emacs in X without a window manager. If you want an unobtrusive window manager to run Emacs in (not what you asked for, I know), then something like ratpoison would do the job nicely. But you asked about an actual window manager (I think) that is run by Emacs, I don't think there is one, but there is one run by XEmacs, namely XWEM (www.xwem.org). Jay