You have to use a window manager. You can use the internal window manager by passing the -multiwindow flag to XWin.exe
Harold
Anton Vaaranmaa wrote:
Hello,
Judging by this screenshot <URL: http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/screenshots/cygwin-xfree86-multiwindow.png > I got the impression that nowadays one can run X-applications in Cygwin XFree without a window manager (like Twm, WindowMaker), and that X-apps sort of blend in in the MS-Windows GUI like they were native Win32 apps.
In the screenshot those WinXP window decorations and the fact that those x-apps are present in the windows taskbar suggest they are managed by Windows XP, but when I tried the latest stable Cygwin-XFree myself I had to use a standard *nix window manager or else no frame and wm buttons etc would be present and windows could not be moved like they are supposed to.
I'm confused: what* is* it actually that I'm seeing? Just some WinXP theme for some standard *nix wm or are those apps *really* managed by MS-Windows? If they are, then what is the magic thing I have to do in order to enable this? Now I have used "-rootless" and "-multiwindow'' as arguments for Xwin in my startxwin.bat script.
