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Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:24:54 -0400
- Subject: Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021025084203.02ec9ce8@pop3.cris.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Randall,
No, there is no such combination of flags.
How do you intend to set the focus to Cygwin/XFree86 without a taskbar
entry? I mean, you could minimize it and not be able to get it back.
In the future, when we write the Windows-based window manager, I intend
to make Cygwin/XFree86 use a system tray icon rather than a taskbar
icon, but only when using the Windows-based window manager.
Now, from the perspective of building a correct application, can't you
see that it would be incredibly non-standard of us to allow
Cygwin/XFree86 to not have a taskbar icon? No other Windows application
that needs to be minimized/restored/closed has that behavior.
Typically, only applications that are either closed or open are in the
system tray. Can you see my point? I suppose you could code such a
feature if you wanted that did not change the default behavior, but I'm
not sure how much use it would be to others...
Harold
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Please forgive my creative capitalization in the Subject line.
I had hoped that using "-nodecoration" with "-rootless" would prevent
the XWin server getting a taskbar icon, but alas, no.
Is there a combination of options or a configuration file or
environment setting that will suppress the taskbar icon in rootless mode?
Oh, yeah... Rootless Rocks!
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA