Rootless mode revisited...

[Thomas Chadwick]

I tried out this patch (took a few days because I needed to get xfree86 out 
of CVS and build it).  Very cool.  Thanks a bunch to MATSUZAKI for coding 
it!  You saved me a lot of work.

Here's a screenshot...

http://home.adelphia.net/~tlcweb/cygwin/pseudo_rootless_screenshot.gif

Notice that you can see IE in the background along with some Windows desktop 
icons down the left side of the screen.  The windows in the forground are 
Xclients (namely xterm, xclock, and xeyes).  The icon in the lower left is 
an iconified Xclient.

However, I noticed a few strange artifacts of this approach to rootless 
mode...

1) When you click and drag on an Xwindow to move it, you only see the bits 
and pieces of the "rubber band" outline which happen to overlap the other 
Xwindows.  Where the rubber band overlaps Windows windows, you see nothing.

2) Now that there is no root window, you can't use the XWindows window 
manager's root-window menus.

3) A favorite tool of mine, x2x, is broken, which is due to the lack of a 
root window causing the mouse focus to jump back and forth XWindows and 
Windows.


Still, if anyone wants to try it out, here's a binary that I built last 
night from source I pulled from CVS yesterday...

http://home.adelphia.net/~tlcweb/cygwin/XWin.exe


>From: MATSUZAKI Kensuke <zakki@peppermint.jp>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Rootless mode revisited...
>Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 03:30:50 +0900
>
>Thomas didn't talk about X Shape Extension.
>I think Thomas's idea is something like this.
>
>With this patch and "-nodecoration" option, it seems to work good.
>
><< pseudo-rootless.patch >>


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