Rootless: how to get wm menu?

Jean-Claude Gervais jc.gervais@videotron.ca
Fri Oct 25 09:05:00 GMT 2002


If you are running WindowMaker, pressing F12 gets the root menu.


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From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of Jehan
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:46 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Rootless: how to get wm menu?

Keith D. Tyler wrote:

> You could run an app that shows some root window space. Try running
> Xeyes. The rootless mode doesnt include the X shape mask of xeyes in
> the Windows shape map for rootless mode, so the corners of xeyes
> should be usable as root window click-space.


That's not true anymore. The latest release of XWin (4.2.0-15) support
shapes in rootless mode.

        Jehan




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