Generic rootless
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Oct 20 17:44:00 GMT 2003
Brian E. Gallew wrote:
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>> -win32rootless is going to cause a lot of trouble for people to
>> remember, and most people will get confused about the distinction
>> between -rootless and -win32rootless. Is there any reason to suspect
>> that the old '-oldrootless' will remain in use after the new
>> '-rootless' is available? It would seem to me that we might even want
>> to just replace the original rootless functionality with the new
>> functionality that uses the shared code.
>>
>> Anybody have some input on this?
>
>
> Post a binary and I'll let you know! 8-}
Okay, unfortunately this can only be built from CVS head, so it can't be
distributed as a 'test' release via setup.exe. Ugh... this is going to
get me into the same sort of thing that was the Server Test Series. I
really don't want to go down that route again... but I will post one
binary for people to check out:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/XWin-rootless-20031020-1341.exe.bz2
(1.3 MiB)
If you don't know what to do with the above, then please just forget
about it; do not ask for help, you will not receive any. This is only
to enable other developers and very advanced users to provide feedback
on the new shared rootless code.
> I think the real question here is: how is the new rootless mode going to
> affect multi-window mode (if at all)? I've used the old rootless mode,
> and like it a lot, BUT it's really convenient to have my windows show up
> in the task bar/menu.
This won't have any effect on multi-window mode for now. The rootless
mode still requires an external window manager. We may rewrite the
current multi-window mode as an external window manager, which would
allow the new rootless mode and the new external window manager to do
the same thing as the current multi-window mode.
Harold
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