RE: how to make xterm point for active window without mouse click

[Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Haomin Wu wrote:

> Does anyone understand what I am stating below?
>
Yes.

> Since no any response so far, maybe I did not describe it clearly.
>
Some people on this list are students and are very busy with finals now.
Others have year end projects at work to wrap up.  Please be patient.

> If you have any inputs, let me know.
>
> I have recently installed cygwin on my pc windown-xp.
>
You meant Windows XP.

> The cygwin version 2.416.
>
No.  That is the version of the Cygwin installer (setup.exe) that you
used.  See the output of "uname -a" for the Cygwin version.

> I run startxwin on my window dos prompt and get a xfree86 server
> running on the window. I find one thing amazing is that all x-terms can
> be opened on MS window xp instead on the xfree86 own window which used
> to be the case with previous version.
>
startxwin now uses the -multiwindow switch to enable the native
Windows XP window manager instead of twm or the like.  Stay tuned for an
even more improved version comming soon.

> But one thing that I don't quite
> like is that now all the xterm windows don't have the point-to-active
> functions which should be the case in x-window. Now every time, I want
> to type commands on a xterm, I have to use mouse click to make it active
> like MS window. This is really inconienent. Is there any way I can set
> up the windows for mouse point-to-make acive.
>
This is a function of your window manager.  You have two options:

2.) Edit the startxwin.sh script to remove the -multiwindow switch and use
a window manager such as twm that you have configured to react this way.

2.) Continue using -multiwindow and try XP PowerToys Tweakui, although I
believe there are behavioral problems here as well, YMMV.  With it, you
can make all of Windows act the way you want.  See:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

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