rootless mode and mousing to other windows
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Oct 31 14:30:00 GMT 2002
I don't think that such interaction between the X Windows window manager
and, essentially, the Windows window manager is going to be useful in
the end, and it would be overly complicated to implement such an interim
solution.
Remember that the ultimate solution is to write calls that make Windows
the window manager for our X apps, so your concern would no longer be an
issue.
I urge you to focus on the later solution, rather than trying to send
signals between two window managers.
Harold
Gerald S. Williams wrote:
> I agree -rootless rocks. And a -systray option would be great.
>
> But one thing that I'd really like to be able to do now that
> -rootless is around is be able to have all X windows become
> inactive when a Windows window is selected. When I switch to
> X-Windows, all of the Windows-style windows become inactive.
> I'd like the reverse to happen as well. Otherwise, when I
> switch out of X-Windows, the most-recently-selected window
> in X is shown as active even though it isn't. It's actually
> worse than that, since a cursor is shown in both windows.
>
> I'm not sure what this is equivalent to in X terms. Perhaps
> mousing to another screen? Has anyone given any thought to
> this? I'd be willing to take a shot at an implementation if
> given enough of a nudge in the right direction.
>
> -Jerry Williams
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