rootless mode and mousing to other windows

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Nov 1 10:20:00 GMT 2002


Wilhelm,

Oh yeah, I see your point.  I don''t want to start up that discussion 
again :)

Harold

Wilhelm Person wrote:

>Right now I use cygwin xfree for terminal emulation, more or less.  But it
>would be nice to be able to use an X windowmanager instead of Explorer. So
>all the applications, even stuff like IE or WinAMP, are managed through
>the X window manager.
>
>As I understand it the current efforts with a rootless mode are going in
>the other direction, where X apps are managed by Explorer.
>
>/W
>
>On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
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>>Wilhelm,
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>>Wilhelm Person wrote:
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>>>Guess I'm in the 1% then, I prefer fvwm to any other window manager I have
>>>seen yet.  It would be very, very cool to have fvwm on Windows.
>>>
>>>/W
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>Are you referring to just having fvwm available for Cygwin/XFree86 or
>>are you referring to having the additional feature of
>>current-window-focus synchronization between fvwm and MS Windows?  If
>>you just want fvwm, it is already available as a Cygwin/XFree86 package
>>via setup.exe.  If you want the later feature, well, then that is what
>>we are discussing.
>>
>>Harold
>>
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