Windows titles, root window and xterm

[Darryl Scott <darryls at productcosting dot com>]

Hi!
Two /three points :

Point 1 : Opposite behaviour in Window titles defaulting to Cygwin/X X

A similar point to  this has been raised before, in March 2004, in a remote 
context. I do not believe that it was ever answered fully.

I have just installed Cygwin on a 100% clean W2000 machine and have 
opposite behaviour to that found on W2003 with the same version (8/4/04 N.B 
dd/mm/yy not USA format) of Cygwin. Any explanations? Clearly on W2000 it 
wants the clipboard started, what ever that entails.  My point is that 
opposite behaviour occurs on W2003, I just want to understand why.

Below are the XWin command lines and the differences found in the W2000 log 
files.
There are no fails in the common part of the log files.

StartXwin.bat

This version displays executable titles from the X-app bulletins as 
required. In W2003 it is the opposite.

XWin -multiwindow -emulate3buttons -nowinkill

Xwin log segment from W2000 :

winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard is not enabled, returning.
winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the 
display.

EOF

StartXwin.bat

This version produces Cygwin/X X as the bulletin titles. In W2003 it is the 
opposite.

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -nowinkill

Xwin log segment form W2000:

winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
winClipboardProc - Hello
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the 
display.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened 
the display.
winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.

EOF

Point 2/3 : "the root window"

What is the name of the *rc file that controls this root window? Currently 
it is a seemingly useless frozen blob without mouse control and 
unpopulated. So I would like to  either use it or loose it.

The other menu items controlled via .XWinrc are OK except that the 
application elements have an instance of a xterm that was used to open the 
application. While this xterm dies after the application dies it would be 
good to lose it earlier.

e.g. XWinrc menu commands :

xterm -fg ** -bg **                       // using .bashrc

and

xterm -fg  ** -bg ** -e /usr/bin/tcshrc      // using .tcshrc and other 
shells and scripts

etc.

I have successfully "lost" this xterm when running applications within 
Cygwin but have not manage to do this when using Cygwin as the X-server for 
"foreign" applications.

e.g. for Cygwin calls in XWinrc  use a shell invocation to start the 
application :

/usr/bin/tcshrc

etc.

The same style of call to a non Cygwin application does not work.

Input greatly appreciated.


Kind regards,


Darryl Scott

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