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This commit moves the window layouter and window decorator into dedicated packages that can now be combined with the "wm" server at runtime and restarted/reconfigured/swapped-out independently. To use the window manager, one must start the 'wm', 'window_layouter', and one of the 'motif_decorator' or 'themed_decorator' subsystems. Fixes #3024
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Window manager
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This package provides the central part of Genode's componentized GUI stack
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via a custom implementation of the nitpicker session interface.
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It must be complemented by a window layouter and a window decorator, each of
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which is a separate client component. Whereas the window decorator defines how
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windows look, the window layouter defines how they behave.
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The window manager, decorator, and layouter propagate their respective state
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(like the window layout or the decoration margins) via reports and ROMs. The
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window-manager package manages the flow of information between those parties
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by providing a report and ROM service to the external layouter and decorator.
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The special roles of the layouter and decorator among the window-manager
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clients are identified according to their names (labels), which are suffixed
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with "layouter" and "decorator" respectively. All other clients are expected
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to be regular windowed applications.
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