6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything

Rudolf Kollien Rudolf.Kollien@medas.de
Fri Apr 9 00:09:00 GMT 2004


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As cygwin provides a *nix-like environment, there IS a (shell) solution. Would 
be the first problem which couldn't worked around :-)

Am Freitag, 9. April 2004 01:20 schrieb Harold L Hunt II:
> Rudolf Kollien wrote:
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> > Hello Harold,
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> > sorry, if my question sounds stupid, but... when i can't use run in a
> > batch why there is "run" used in the startxdmcp.bat? It does the job as
> > requested. But only with "-nodecorations". Why can a window without
> > border and titlebar can be used, but a "normal" window not?
> >
> > I don't want to compare to the old XFree86 (i'm glad about the new
> > project) but once upon a time there where the same problem but was gone
> > long ago.
>
> I didn't want to get into the details of what works and what doesn't
> work.  You are right that it seems to work fine with "-query", but it
> doesn't work with other options.  I don't know what is going on, but I
> suspect we can probably fix it by modifying either run.exe or
> XWin.exe... but the other solution is to just use bash so we can do
> "XWin &" instead of using start or run.  Find whatever solution you need
> for the time being until it can be fixed properly.
>
> Harold

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