how do I get a rootless window manager again

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun May 24 12:02:00 GMT 2009


gtp wrote:
> Before upgrading cygwin, my window manager was rootless.
> With the last upgrade $ startx gets me a rooted window manager.
> 
> How can I restore the old rootless behavior?
> 
> I found where I can add "-rootless" to the defaultserverarguments in 
> /bin/startx.
> I can't find a window manager that gives me the old behavior.
> 
> Am I not reading the right FAQ?
> Don't get me wrong.. I sincerely appreciate all the work you all do for us;
> The current default X11 config just doesn't suit my dual screen workstation
> like the old setup did.

You probably want to set defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard" to get back the old
default behaviour

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10175

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