XWin glitch: alt-tab menu

[Harold L Hunt II]

Keith,

Keith Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:33:18PM -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
>>When I run the XWin server on Windows XP, its icon is always the first
>>in the alt-tab menu that's used to switch between Windows applications.
>>To go back to XWin, I have to either use alt-shift-tab or cycle through
>>the entire menu.  I've never seen another Windows application that
>>does this.
> 
> 
> As Harold L Hunt II quite correctly pointed out, I didn't provide enough
> information.  I'll now provide too much.  8-)}
> 
> My system is an IBM Thinkpad T40 running Windows XP Pro with the latest
> updates.  (I think I've seem the same symptom on my Windows 2000 system
> at home, but I can't confirm that at the moment.)
> 
> I've installed the latest updates for Cygwin, including xorg-x11-xwin
> version 6.7.0.0-2.

Hmm... this is suspicious, you claim 6.7.0.0-2 but your log file states 
6.7.0.0-1.  It could be my mistake, but you might also need to reboot to 
allow XWin.exe to be upgraded if it was being used when setup.exe was 
being run.

> I start the XWin server from a Cygwin bash shell, using the following
> command:
> 
>     /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe -fullscreen -emulate3buttons &
> 
> And something that I hadn't noticed before: XWin.exe produces a bunch
> of output on stderr (the last three lines show up when I terminate it):

The output on stderr is a feature not a bug.  Just redirect the output 
to /dev/null if you don't need it (e.g. XWin > /dev/null 2>&1).

Can I ask if you have a good reason for using fullscreen?  I would think 
you might be more interested in -multiwindow (internal window manager), 
-rootless (needs an external window manager, but doesn't show root 
window), or -nodecoration (needs external window manager, does show root 
window but without window titlebar and border).  I'm asking because 
almost no one uses -fullscreen anymore and I think that the problem you 
are reporting is peculiar to -fullscreen.

We use two different routines to create our top-level window: one for 
fullscreen and one for all other modes.  The fullscreen procedure sets 
the WS_EX_TOPMOST extended style for our top-level window.  I'm not sure 
if this is required, it has been a long time since I wrote that code... 
and changing it might re-introduce bugs that were fixed by specifying 
that style.  But, I think I'll take a short look at it.

Until then, try the other modes and report if you have started using one 
of them instead.

Harold