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Re: Invoking rootless mode
Bradey,
Thanks for pointing that out. I added the -rootless command-line arg to
the patch that Matsuzaki sent in, so Test66 and XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-13
are different than the release that Thomas Chadwick made.
This version of a rootless mode is precisely what I was aiming for:
something simple that can be built off of. I had no idea that it would
be quite that simple though! :)
Now it is only a matter of time until we implement all of the little
features that will make rootless mode complete.
Harold
Bradey Honsinger wrote:
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