Rootless mode revisited...

[Harold L Hunt II]

Thomas,

What CVS tree did you pull this from?  Why isn't MATSUZAKI working with 
us?  If I recall correctly, he wrote the Unicode support for xwinclip, 
right?

Harold

Thomas Chadwick wrote:

> 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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