Re: Rootless mode

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

David,

I have not released a test version because the version that Kensuke sent 
me didn't work at all.  It just kept repeating the dragging of a window 
if you ever moved one.  I sent a report to the list but he never 
responded.  I didn't want to bug him about it for awhile in case he had 
seen it... but it seems now that he never saw it.

I will release a test version once there are no obvious bugs.  I mean, 
are we really going to benefit from 100 people saying ``multiwindow mode 
doesn't work, it keeps doing foo''?  I don't think so :)

Harold

David Fraser wrote:
> Kensuke, Harold,
> I was just wondering whether it would be possible to create a test build 
> of the X server with this multi-window
> mode. Obviously there are issues with it but I presume they only come up 
> in multi-window mode?
> It would just be really nice to see it beginning to work - this is 
> something lots of people have wanted for a long time,
> congratulations for getting it going!
>
> David
>
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > JS,
> >
> > Kensuke titled his message ``rootless mode'' when it should really 
> > have been titled ``multi-window mode''.  The goal of multi-window mode 
> > is to create a Windows-window for each top-level X Window, rather than 
> > creating one huge window for your entire X desktop.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > J S wrote:
> >
> > > > Kensuke,
> > > >
> > > > The new patch is an architectual improvement.
> > > >
> > > > However, when I run it, if I move a window it gets moved, then it 
> > > > jumps back to its original position and retraces the move path that 
> > > > I took it on, over and over again until I feel like I will throw 
> > > > up.  :)
> > > >
> > > > I am not sure what is causing this problem, but obviously the queue 
> > > > of messages is not being cleared and is instead being looped through 
> > > > repeatedly.
> > > >
> > > > My log file from this session is on the web:
> > > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/XWinrl.log.bz2 (33 KiB)
> > > >
> > > > The unpacked log file is 800+ KiB.
> > > >
> > > > Harold
> > > >
> > > > Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Harold,
> > > > >
> > > > > It remains only for debugging.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Am I correct that the root window is still being drawn, even 
> > > > > > thought it is
> > > > > > not really usable?  Is that something that remains to be fixed, or 
> > > > > > did I
> > > > > > have something go wrong with my patching?
> > > > > By the way, this is new patch that integrates XWin and the window 
> > > > > manager.
> > > > >
> > > > > Kensuke Matsuzaki
> > > How does this patch change what Rootless mode already does? I thought 
> > > that rootless mode already integrated the window manager? I have 
> > > windowmaker running, and when I'm in rootless mode the xterms come up 
> > > with windowmaker frames. Can you integrate with the Windows windows 
> > > manager?
> > >
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