Running Xwin in passive mode
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Tue May 6 13:53:00 GMT 2003
XWin -multiwindow
You must NOT run a seperate window manager, such as twm, etc. (Be sure
to comment it out if you use startxwin.bat or one of the other scripts).
The windows are all run from a single XWin invocation, so cut and paste
always works between xterms.
Harold
KIDWELL, REX (SBCSI) wrote:
> Has anyone figured out how to run Xwin in the passive mode (sorry Exceed
> terminology)?
>
> Passive mode is defined as starting a Xserver in the background without a
> full screen session manager. The goal is to display individual X clients
> like any other program running on a Windows platform. I.E. run remote
> xterms and dtterms from remote systems and display them like a DOS CMD
> window.
>
> An additional requirement would be to run them from a single Xwin invocation
> so cut and paste would be supported between xterms.
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