Desktop Multitasking

[ga56292@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kyle Weegs)]

As I understand it, GNO will multitask one desktop app. with however many shell
processes.  With Swith-It! running under GNO, I suppose the current desktop app.
is multitasked with the shell processes, while the other desktop apps. are
suspended.
 
If a desktop program does all of its stuff as multitasked processes under the
GNO kernel and only uses the desktop part for user I/O, can it continue to do
whatever it does after another desktop app. is selected in SwitchIt! ?
(maybe even switch to the GNO shell, while the meat of several desktop apps.
is running in the background)
  
What I mean to ask is: is this a feasible method of having truly multitasked
desktop programs, or am I completely off the mark?
   
-George
 GeorgeA@uiuc.edu
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 I could be someone that nobody knows" -The Police
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