Classic Mode bundle

[Jim Gettys]

Thanks greatly, Owen!  This fills an immediate need.

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:04 -0500, Owen Williams wrote:
> Classic Mode is a bundle that embeds a Xephyr session in an activity.
> It's very useful for running non-sugarized programs.
> 
> It was originally written by Dan Williams, and I've brought it up to
> date with a proper icon and the newer activity API.  It only works on
> the devel builds (at the moment), but it includes the Xephyr runtime so
> it doesn't need to be installed by yum.  Eventually I'll bundle xterm
> and twm with it and make a non-devel-build friendly version.

We can/should do better than twm these days: Puppylinux uses jwm, as an
example.

Among other things, I'd like to not have dependencies on Xaw and Xt, Xmu
and the like in anything that may commonly be used.
                                - Jim


> 
> I've attached a small screenshot showing xchat running in classic
> mode.  
> 
> You can find it on my wiki at http://ywwg.com/wiki/index.php/OLPC_Work
> 
> owen
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Jim Gettys
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