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Re: rootless mode
- To: Peter Chun - SYD IT <peterch at ticketek dot com dot au>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: rootless mode
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 04:43:53 -0800 (PST)
Peter,
Rootless mode is not yet supported in the cygwin X server. The reason, if you
are interested, is because the Cygwin port is in it's initial stages currently,
where the X server is really a FrameBuffer based X server. To make a Rootless
X server based off of the FrameBuffer architecture would take a lot of work,
and be extremely inefficient.
The developers are beginning on work to make the X server rely on the win32
GDI, which may allow for a Rootless mode... but my guess is that it will not
exist until the GDI implementation has been completed and tested.
So, for a simple answer, no, Rootless mode is not supported, and will not be
for some time. Commercial X servers for Windows such as LabF's WinaXe,
Hummingbird eXceed and Starnet's Xwin32 all include a rootless mode, but of
course, are in no way free :)
Brian
--- Peter Chun - SYD IT <peterch@ticketek.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know how to put cygwin-xfree86 into rootless mode?
>
> Or if that feature is to be implemented in the future?
>
> I have searched in the mail list archive, FAQ and google
> and not found anything.. The OS X version supports it though.
>
> Thanks
> Peter
>
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