x-server with window-manager
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Oct 18 14:10:00 GMT 2002
Sven,
For future reference, Cygwin/XFree86 is not in any way based on Xnest.
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.
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
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
Or, you can wait a day or two and I will make an official Test 67
release announcement and you can just download that version then.
Harold
Sven Köhler wrote:
>> I realize that English is probably not your native language, but could
>> you elaborate on your question a little bit? I cannot understand what
>> you are asking.
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> Is there a project, that is developing a x-server that has an
> integrated window-manager so that x-forwarded windows will appear like
> ms-windows' native ones?
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> I think cygwin's current x-server is based on Xnest so that all the
> x-forwarded windows will appear within one big window which is my
> "XFree"-Desktop and they do not seamlessly integrate into the
> ms-windows-desktop.
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