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Re: x-server with window-manager
Frank,
I'm not sure if Cygwin proper maintains an open development items list,
but Cygwin/XFree86 has a development to-do page:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html
Some of the items listed on that page are more housekeeping, such as
integrating the Wine DirectDraw headers with Cygwin's win32api package,
while others are sort of wish-list items, such as writing the
Windows-based window manager that works together with the new rootless
mode. The new rootless mode itself will require a lot of attention, as
we could provide an option that would allow root menus to work (but this
wouldn't allow you to click the focus through to a Windows window; we
also need to handle non-rectangular windows created with the X Shape
Extension.
Then there is xwinclip, which Chris Twiner has put a lot of work into
and I need to review and accept his patches... his work should allow us
to integrate clipboard support into XWin.exe, rather than having to run
a stand-alone executable.
Hmm... I just realized that the To-Do list needs to be updated and
several items need to be added. I will try to get around to that soon.
Harold
Lane, Frank L wrote:
Hi Harold,
I'm trying to learn and maybe that puts me out of the loop here. But, I'll
ask anyway. Is there a place users, like myself, can go and see a list of
outstanding projects for cygwin? You know, the one's that you authors would
allow us to help on.
Thanks,
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:05 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: x-server with window-manager
Sven,
<snip>
I said earlier that you would still have to run an X Window Manager. Yes,
Cygwin/XFree86 will eventually have a window manager that opens X windows in
Windows windows. However, we only got rootless support three days ago, so I
wouldn't count on that integrated window manager being finished any time
soon, unless you are willing to help write it.
Harold