XFree86 goes into stasis when NetMeeting is running

[Earle F. Philhower III]

Howdy...

At 09:25 PM 9/13/2003 -0400, Jeffrey C. Honig <jch@honig.net> wrote:
>I've recently switched back to Cygwin/XFree86 from Exceed (ugh) and
>rediscovered a problem.
>I'm running XFree86 with -fullscreen on my Win2k laptop.  Whenever I
>start NetMeeting to join a call, XFree86 will no longer display until I
>exit NetMeeting.  If I use Alt-Tab to switch to XFree86, it will not be
>restored.  As soon as I exit NetMeeting I am able to switch to XFree86
>again.
>What gives?

Try adding "-engine 1" to the XWin command line which should use GDI
calls instead of DirectX calls to draw.  NetMeeting probably grabs the
surface and doesn't release it until you quit.

-Earle F. Philhower, III
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