Regarding X client

[Grant Taylor]

On 6/28/23 4:35 PM, Chris Sorenson wrote:
> That's not even possible anymore, it was way back in the day but now 
> X just immediately exits if there's no window manager to communicate 
> with,

Like Vito, I question the veracity of your claim.

I've not done it with a physical X11 (display) server in a while.  But I 
have done this with a virtual X11 (display) server, a la. Xvnc, within 
the last year.

Like Vito I was using XTerm as the first X11 client (program) and 
launching other things therefrom.  Or at least that's what I was trying 
to do.  I quickly ran into the lack of any ability to manage windows and 
backed up and went a different direction.

But I distinctly remember spending a few minutes messing with using 
XTerm in X11 as a fancy terminal, with it's Sixel and ReGIS graphics 
support.  }:-)

> or, at least that's what happens with my distribution
> (Slackware 15.0).
That seems like a distribution configuration ~> limitation to me.

I've found that there are MANY things that used to be relatively easy to 
do 10-20 years ago that contemporary distributions simply have no 
concept of providing flexibility to support or actively refuse to do 
anything but the top two mainstream DEs / WMs.



Grant. . . .