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
> 



More information about the Cygwin-xfree mailing list