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Invoking rootless mode
- From: Bradey Honsinger <BradeyH at construx dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:54:32 -0700
- Subject: Invoking rootless mode
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I didn't see a mention of the argument to invoke the new rootless mode
anywhere in this thread--no doubt it's in the updated man pages, but I just
grabbed the Test66 binary. Logically enough, it's '-rootless':
-rootless
EXPERIMENTAL: Run the server in pseudo-rootless mode.
You don't appear to need the '-nodecoration' option when you use
'-rootless'. Note that the output of 'XWin -help' goes to /tmp/XWin.log[1],
a fact which I had forgotten.
This is really cool--many thanks to Matsuzaki, Thomas, and Harold! It's a
bit of a hack, but it looks very useful, and at the least it should get most
of the 'Why doesn't cygwin-xfree work like my favorite commerial X server?'
people off of Harold's back. I'll probably go back to full-screen 'rooted'
mode, though--I _like_ hiding all of the Windows junk when I'm working in X.
- Bradey
[1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-04/msg00504.html