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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: getting the most out of TWM
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 01:16:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:34:25 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> 
>> I kept wondering how a process that ran under the GUI could be the
>> parent of everything else that ran under that GUI, including obviously
>> the window manager.
> 
> It's not the parent, it "holds" the X session.  In the case of "exec
> xterm", when xterm exits, the x session ends.

Except it didn’t. In that example, the X server kept running, but there 
was no window manager or any other X clients to actually let you do 
anything with it.