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Re: Generic rootless
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:44:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: Generic rootless
- References: <uwub0y0qf.wl@zakki@peppermint.jp> <3F941B1F.5070504@msu.edu> <3F941C62.8070903@burri.to>
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Brian E. Gallew wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
-win32rootless is going to cause a lot of trouble for people to
remember, and most people will get confused about the distinction
between -rootless and -win32rootless. Is there any reason to suspect
that the old '-oldrootless' will remain in use after the new
'-rootless' is available? It would seem to me that we might even want
to just replace the original rootless functionality with the new
functionality that uses the shared code.
Anybody have some input on this?
Post a binary and I'll let you know! 8-}
Okay, unfortunately this can only be built from CVS head, so it can't be
distributed as a 'test' release via setup.exe. Ugh... this is going to
get me into the same sort of thing that was the Server Test Series. I
really don't want to go down that route again... but I will post one
binary for people to check out:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/XWin-rootless-20031020-1341.exe.bz2
(1.3 MiB)
If you don't know what to do with the above, then please just forget
about it; do not ask for help, you will not receive any. This is only
to enable other developers and very advanced users to provide feedback
on the new shared rootless code.
I think the real question here is: how is the new rootless mode going to
affect multi-window mode (if at all)? I've used the old rootless mode,
and like it a lot, BUT it's really convenient to have my windows show up
in the task bar/menu.
This won't have any effect on multi-window mode for now. The rootless
mode still requires an external window manager. We may rewrite the
current multi-window mode as an external window manager, which would
allow the new rootless mode and the new external window manager to do
the same thing as the current multi-window mode.
Harold