x-server with window-manager

[Sven Köhler]

> For future reference, Cygwin/XFree86 is not in any way based on Xnest.


i tought that i've read something like that.
was it Xvfb? but it's not so important...

> Also, what you are trying to accomplish has nothing to do with whether a
> window is created by a local X client or by a remote X client with X11
> forwarding.


OK, that's right, i just took x-forwarding as an example.

> Now, to answer  your question, yes, there is preliminary support for a
> so-called ``rootless''.  However, this ``rootless'' mode still requires
> an X Window Manager.  That is, X clients do not appear within a Windows
> window, they appear within an X window, but the root window is not
> displayed so it looks like the X apps are floating above your Windows 
> apps.
>
> The release announcement for the ``rootless'' support is here:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00160.html


OK, but how to i start XWin.exe so it will work in "rootless"-mode?

> Also, I posted a slightly faster binary, Test 67, that you can download
> instead of Test 66:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00188.html

just installed it ...