Rootless mode
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Dec 12 08:24:00 GMT 2002
Kensuke,
Did you ever look into the bug I reported where a dragged window just
keeps on repeating the dragging and never stops moving? Seems to be a
problem with the message queue not being cleared properly.
My email is in the list archives if you missed it.
Harold
Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
>> I wholeheartedly second that; either a test build, or perhaps some
>>instructions on how to take the patch(es) you supplied and build a
>>modified version using the existing Cygwin tools.
>
> To build XWin.exe, please read http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/cygwin-xfree-cg.html
>
> The patch can be applied as shown in the following command
> $pwd
> ~/x-devel/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin
> $bunzip2 rootless.patch.bz2
> $patch -p1 < rootless.patch
>
> I edited xc/config/cf/cygwin.rules to disable version controlled .dll,
> but is it right?
>
>
>>Is this just a matter
>>of building a modified version of the XWin.exe binary and replacing my
>>current "XWin -rootless" line with "XWin2 -multiwindow" in the startx
>>script?
>
> Yes.
>
> Kensuke Matsuzaki
>
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