Rootless and multiwindow

[Anton Vaaranmaa]

Hello,

Judging by this screenshot <URL: 
http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/screenshots/cygwin-xfree86-multiwindow.png > I 
got the impression that nowadays one can run X-applications in Cygwin XFree 
without a window manager (like Twm, WindowMaker), and that X-apps sort of 
blend in in the MS-Windows GUI like they were native Win32 apps.

In the screenshot those WinXP window decorations and the fact that those 
x-apps are present in the windows taskbar suggest they are managed by Windows 
XP, but when I tried the latest stable Cygwin-XFree myself I had to use a 
standard *nix window manager or else no frame and wm buttons etc would be 
present and windows could not be moved like they are supposed to. 

I'm confused: what* is* it actually that I'm seeing? Just some WinXP theme for 
some standard *nix wm or are those apps *really* managed by MS-Windows? If 
they are, then what is the magic thing I have to do in order to enable this? 
Now I have used "-rootless" and "-multiwindow'' as arguments for Xwin in my 
startxwin.bat script.

-- 
Anton