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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