New version of capabilities patch online, some more status

[jont at us.ibm.com]

Reading the I-ching it looks like Richard Offer may have written:

* $ from thompson at argus-systems.com at "27-Apr:10:52am" | sed "1,$s/^/* /"
*
* There is of course a third issue to be considered and that is the
* modification of window managers to be multi-level aware.  Typically,
* window managers are modified to display the label of each X window
* on each window.  An alternative approach is to create a screen stripe
* that displays the label of the currently in focus window.

| You really need a trusted window manager to ensure that the "trusted
path" or
| what you're calling the "screen stripe" can't be spoofed.

| Of course fixing it for "n" window managers is an excellent way of
getting
| people to contribute :-).

Would it not be better to get the X server to lie about the screen size,
and have the X server maintain control of the stripe ?

(Conceptually) It seems easier than developing trust in "n" window
managers,
even for small 'n'.

- JonT


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