New "multiwindow" mode is great
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Jan 16 13:48:00 GMT 2003
John,
You might find it interesting that upon closer inspection the
multi-window mode is dependent upon the message procedure in the normal
mode for handling keyboard input, etc. I am not sure if we can create
the root window and have it process messages without being displayed.
In any case, it may take a little bit of engineering to compartmenalize
the functionality in the root window message procedure so that it can be
used in fullscreen and multiwindow modes.
Just thought I would share that... hiding the root window may not be
trivial.
Harold
John Buttery wrote:
> * Yadin Y Goldschmidt <yadin@pitt.edu> [2003-01-15 20:48:47 -0500]:
>
>>XWin with a startxwin.bat batch file with
>>start XWin -multiwindow
>>run rxvt -sl 1000 -e bash -l
>>this will insure your bash prompt wil appear if it is in .bashrc. You
>>can also add stuff like -fg black -bg white -fm 9x16bold --scrollstyle
>>next -sr to the rxvt line to make it look nicer.
>
>
> I think what he means is that he has escape sequences in his prompt
> to update the titlebar of the window, which stopped working as of
> multiwindow mode. The same thing happened with mine (although I do mine
> with "export PROMPT_COMMAND" rather than embedding them in the prompt
> itself), but I wasn't going to say anything. :)
>
> As for the now-superfluous root window taskbar tab, I'm sure it will
> be moved into the system tray soon enough, once the debugging phase is
> over.
>
> And as for the Word document...hmm, no, I'll spare the list. ;)
>
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