Rootless mode revisited...

[Thomas Chadwick]

By the way, my ISP seems to be blocking downloads of exe's.  Zipping it 
seems to work.  Please download the exe using this URL instead...

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

>From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, zakki@peppermint.jp
>Subject: Re: Rootless mode revisited...
>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:21:25 -0400
>
>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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