bug#7270: 24.0.50; wish: emacs as WM: Being able to show arbitrary x-windows in emacs windows — as in ezbl, but universal.

[Phil Sainty]

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@yahoo.de> writes:
> I’d like to see that idea taken to its full extend,
> making emacs not only my main coding environment,
> but also my X11 window manager.

You're looking for EXWM then.

* https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
* https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki
* https://github.com/johanwiden/exwm-setup

It has some nice features, such as the ability to translate
keys on a per-application basis, so that you can use familiar
keys in applications which don't support custom key bindings
(or indeed even in those which do).