XFree86 goes into stasis when NetMeeting is running
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Sun Sep 14 21:06:00 GMT 2003
Jeffrey,
Netmeeting and Cygwin/XFree86 in fullscreen mode both need an exclusive
lock on DirectDraw. At least, that is what makes sense to me. One way
around this is to use the "-engine 1" command-line parameter for
XWin.exe. This will tell XWin.exe to use the GDI based (i.e.
non-DirectDraw) engine to draw its graphics. You will notice it is a
little more sluggish than the DirectDraw engine (which is used by
default), but it will solve your problems with NetMeeting.
Let us know if this works for you,
Harold
Jeffrey C Honig 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?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff
>
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