windowed mode seemingly unavailable

[Brian Deckard]

I am currently unable to determine how to open a single x-server window 
(with multiple x-terms inside), as opposed to the multiple window mode.  I 
would like to operate inside the single window for performance reasons, and 
have done so in the past on a similar Win XP install with Cygwin/X.  My 
understanding is that the window behavior that I am describing is the 
default:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure-cygwin-xfree-options.html

The command I use to launch multiple-window mode is xwin -multiwindow.  The 
command I have used successfully on a separate installation to launch single 
window mode is simply startx.  However, on this computer, it appears to 
simply bring up an xterm (black window with x icon in upper left corner and 
yellow scrollbar) rather than the server window (white background with x 
icon in upper left corner and green scrollbars, not sure on exact 
terminology).

With both systems, the only customization steps that I have performed (to my 
best recollection) are adding the xfree86-base and openssh packages.  This 
is so that I can open remote apps.

If anyone can point me in the right path, it would be very gratefully 
appreciated.  I have spent several hours searching myself with google and in 
the list archives with very little useful information turned up.

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