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| Authored by: Jeays on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 03:12 PM EDT |
FVWM offered a "swallow" mechanism that made it easy to implement
active widgets in the panel, back in about 1998. I wrote a
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| Authored by: stegu on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 06:09 PM EDT |
> How long has the X windowing system supported
> multiple terminal windows?
That would be 1984, right from its inception.
The "xbiff" e-mail notification application
is a pretty early example of how X was used
for presenting information from secondary
sources to the user in an unobtrusive manner.
You can probably go back even further, to
text-only terminal screens. The serial interface
protocol for the VT100 was designed to be able
to address any rectangular area on the screen
as a separate region to scroll, "paint" and erase
in it like a "window" of sorts. I would be surprised
if nobody thought of using that for displaying
things like server load or process status for
a multitasking system while also allowing the
operator to work in a terminal.
I find it sad that we are even discussing this.
This is silly.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 12:40 PM EDT |
A DOS-based game, from Cosmi, 1987. Google it; there's pictures.
A narrow window on the right side of the screen continually scrolled a
"ticker tape" showing the stock prices of the games imaginary
comanies.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:59 PM EDT |
With all the famous Russian scenes as the backgrounds....
That was unobtrusive, but without the beautiful aesthetics it would have
been obtrusive!
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