Rootless and multiwindow

[Harold L Hunt II]

Anton,

You have to use a window manager.  You can use the internal window 
manager by passing the -multiwindow flag to XWin.exe

Harold

Anton Vaaranmaa wrote:
> 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.
>