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Re: Multiwindow request
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:17:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: Multiwindow request
- References: <3EDB717C.5090300@lucent.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Peter,
I think this is doable. We already know the server display and screen
number, so we could create a DISPLAY environment variable to pass to a
new shell. We could also construct a PATH variable that might be able
to deduce the location of cygwin1.dll... but I think that would already
be in the PATH env var that XWin.exe has, so we could possible read it
and pass it to the child shell.
With all of that being said, I don't think I will be writing this
anytime soon, unless I am bored.
Harold
Peter Colovas wrote:
I think the multi-window mode of xfree is great work. Since the addition
of the changeable window title it has been everything I need. I have a
feature request. I don't know how difficult it would be, but it would be
great if the right click menu in the trayy had the option to open an new
xterm window. I sometimes close my only local window, and I hate to have
to shut everything else donw just to get a new one.
Thanks for all the great work.