HOWTO rootless mode??

[Harold L Hunt II]

Randall,

Be nice.

I posted an announcement for XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-15, but I did not 
mention that you should use the ``-rootless'' parameter for the rootless 
mode.  Rootless mode is in the stable release, but it is still 
considered experimental because it may leak memory and it may have 
certain undesireable behaviors.  Although, it seems that rootless mode 
is pretty much complete because there have not been any significant 
complaints.

I did a little SNAFU with respect to the man page because I updated the 
man page, but I did not roll a new release of the man pages package.  I 
should probably do that, but I don't think many users will be pleased 
with redownloading all XFree86 man pages just to get one new one.  I 
will have to think about that one.

Harold

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
> Grrrrr...
> 
> 
> At 13:24 2002-11-05, you wrote:
> 
>> I can't find any documentation on how to use rootless mode (or even 
>> what it is)?
> 
> 
> If you don't know what it is, how do you know _of_ if? Wherever you 
> heard about it (could it be this list?), that's where you'll find other 
> answers. But that does require looking...
> 
> 
>> How do I start rootless mode?
> 
> 
>         XWin -rootless
> 
> Imagine that!
> 
> 
>> Can anyone point me to some sources of help?
> 
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/>
> <http://cygwin.com/lists.html>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/>
> 
> 
>> Is it available with the latest (stable) distribution of cygwin/xfree?
> 
> 
> XFree86-xserv 4.2.0-15 (experimental)
> 
> 
>> Thanks.
>> Lars.
> 
> 
> 
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>