On 29.07.2009, at 10:59, Gary Dunn wrote:

> Today it occurred to me that Alan Kay intended Squeak to be UI for the
> Dynabook. I run Squeak on Gnome on FreeBSD, so just for fun I disabled
> Gnome and started a plain X session using twm, and from an xterm I
> launched Squeak. It looked just like it does in Gnome. The only
> difference I detected in this simple test was that pop-up menus opened
> slower.
>
> Has anyone tried running Squeak from X without a window manager per  
> se?
> I could test it by writing a .xinitrc file but I don't know how badly
> this could turn out.


I once made a session file for GDM which would run Squeak fullscreen  
without any window manager. Worked fine, and was incredibly fast to  
launch :)

- Bert -