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Re: x-server with window-manager
For future reference, Cygwin/XFree86 is not in any way based on Xnest.
i tought that i've read something like that.
was it Xvfb? but it's not so important...
Also, what you are trying to accomplish has nothing to do with whether a
window is created by a local X client or by a remote X client with X11
forwarding.
OK, that's right, i just took x-forwarding as an example.
Now, to answer your question, yes, there is preliminary support for a
so-called ``rootless''. However, this ``rootless'' mode still requires
an X Window Manager. That is, X clients do not appear within a Windows
window, they appear within an X window, but the root window is not
displayed so it looks like the X apps are floating above your Windows
apps.
The release announcement for the ``rootless'' support is here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00160.html
OK, but how to i start XWin.exe so it will work in "rootless"-mode?
Also, I posted a slightly faster binary, Test 67, that you can download
instead of Test 66:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00188.html
just installed it ...