Invoking rootless mode

[Harold L Hunt II]

Bradey,

Thanks for pointing that out.  I added the -rootless command-line arg to 
the patch that Matsuzaki sent in, so Test66 and XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-13 
are different than the release that Thomas Chadwick made.

This version of a rootless mode is precisely what I was aiming for: 
something simple that can be built off of.  I had no idea that it would 
be quite that simple though!  :)

Now it is only a matter of time until we implement all of the little 
features that will make rootless mode complete.

Harold

Bradey Honsinger wrote:

>I didn't see a mention of the argument to invoke the new rootless mode
>anywhere in this thread--no doubt it's in the updated man pages, but I just
>grabbed the Test66 binary. Logically enough, it's '-rootless':
>
>    -rootless
>            EXPERIMENTAL: Run the server in pseudo-rootless mode. 
>
>You don't appear to need the '-nodecoration' option when you use
>'-rootless'. Note that the output of 'XWin -help' goes to /tmp/XWin.log[1],
>a fact which I had forgotten.
>
>This is really cool--many thanks to Matsuzaki, Thomas, and Harold! It's a
>bit of a hack, but it looks very useful, and at the least it should get most
>of the 'Why doesn't cygwin-xfree work like my favorite commerial X server?'
>people off of Harold's back. I'll probably go back to full-screen 'rooted'
>mode, though--I _like_ hiding all of the Windows junk when I'm working in X.
>
>  - Bradey
>
>[1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-04/msg00504.html
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