Bradey, Thanks for pointing that out. I added the -rootless command-line arg to the patch that Matsuzaki sent in, so Test66 and XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-13 are different than the release that Thomas Chadwick made.
This version of a rootless mode is precisely what I was aiming for: something simple that can be built off of. I had no idea that it would be quite that simple though! :) Now it is only a matter of time until we implement all of the little features that will make rootless mode complete. Harold Bradey Honsinger wrote: >I didn't see a mention of the argument to invoke the new rootless mode >anywhere in this thread--no doubt it's in the updated man pages, but I just >grabbed the Test66 binary. Logically enough, it's '-rootless': > > -rootless > EXPERIMENTAL: Run the server in pseudo-rootless mode. > >You don't appear to need the '-nodecoration' option when you use >'-rootless'. Note that the output of 'XWin -help' goes to /tmp/XWin.log[1], >a fact which I had forgotten. > >This is really cool--many thanks to Matsuzaki, Thomas, and Harold! It's a >bit of a hack, but it looks very useful, and at the least it should get most >of the 'Why doesn't cygwin-xfree work like my favorite commerial X server?' >people off of Harold's back. I'll probably go back to full-screen 'rooted' >mode, though--I _like_ hiding all of the Windows junk when I'm working in X. > > - Bradey > >[1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-04/msg00504.html > >
