Re: FVWM: Drawing a rubberband on the root window

From: Kendrick Vargas <kvarga01_at_cs.fiu.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 15:50:04 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 29 May 1998, Chris Pollitt wrote:

> I have what I hope is a simple question (with a simple answer?). In
> other wm's, you can draw
> a rubberband on the root window with mouse button one. The idea being
> that you can select
> multiple windows/icons, which can then be acted upon as a group. Does
> this make sense?
> Can this be done in fvwm?

This is not a feature of any particular window manager... usually, what
happens is that a desktop program is run that sits on and occupies the
root window. It manages the rubberbanding. I know that even if you run
fvwm2 on an SGI, you can still run IRIX's desktop without using 4Dwm. I
also would assume that you can run KDE's desktop without actually using
kwm as your window manager...
                        -peace

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