Re: New "multiwindow" mode is great

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

John,

You might find it interesting that upon closer inspection the 
multi-window mode is dependent upon the message procedure in the normal 
mode for handling keyboard input, etc.  I am not sure if we can create 
the root window and have it process messages without being displayed. 
In any case, it may take a little bit of engineering to compartmenalize 
the functionality in the root window message procedure so that it can be 
used in fullscreen and multiwindow modes.

Just thought I would share that... hiding the root window may not be 
trivial.

Harold

John Buttery wrote:
> * Yadin Y Goldschmidt <yadin@pitt.edu> [2003-01-15 20:48:47 -0500]:
>
> > XWin with a startxwin.bat batch file with
> > start XWin -multiwindow
> > run rxvt -sl 1000 -e bash -l
> > this will insure your bash prompt wil appear if it is in .bashrc. You
> > can also add stuff like -fg black -bg white -fm 9x16bold --scrollstyle
> > next -sr to the rxvt line to make it look nicer.
>
>   I think what he means is that he has escape sequences in his prompt
> to update the titlebar of the window, which stopped working as of
> multiwindow mode.  The same thing happened with mine (although I do mine
> with "export PROMPT_COMMAND" rather than embedding them in the prompt
> itself), but I wasn't going to say anything. :)
>
>   As for the now-superfluous root window taskbar tab, I'm sure it will
> be moved into the system tray soon enough, once the debugging phase is
> over.
>
>   And as for the Word document...hmm, no, I'll spare the list.  ;)