x without a WM/app launching q

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:59 -0600, dave at superelite.net wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running x11R6 on a live CD distro (morphix).  I've changed the link
> /usr/bin/x-session-manager, which used to link to another elsewhere on teh
> system (which eventually linked to a WM) to a shell script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/bin/serverprog&
> /usr/bin/clientGUIbottom&
> /usr/bin/clientGUItop
> 
> 
> 
> I was under the impression that without a wm the two would simply 'stack'
> on top of eachother, based on where i told the GUI programs (from within
> their code) to align themselves.  They go to where i want them, but there
> is no order to how they stack where they overlap-i could call them in any
> order and clientGUIbottom is always on top.  Should this be working?

No. Probably the issue is that clientGUIbottom is just slowest at
creating and showing its window, so some sleeps might help,
but it could also explicitly raise itself to the top of the stack. The
way window management works is that requests from an application to
show, raise/lower, resize and so forth the window  are "redirected" to
the window manager. Without a window manager, these commands are 
executed directly.

					Owen