On 4 Jun, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Umm, I noticed the typo before, but I was hoping you'd notice it too and > correct it. It should have been "startx -- -multiwindow" (you're passing > the "-multiwindow" to the server, not to the clients). Sorry about that.
No worries. (I had assumed startx had been modified to treat -multiwindow specially, which was a silly thing to think.) Interestingly, I just did some tests and found that -rootless seems to work much better overall: 1) Able to type in all rxvt and xterm windows, instead of unable to type! 2) Responsiveness of mouse tracking at least twice as good using -rootless compared to -multiwindow. One advantage of -multiwindow is it gives you a confirmation dialogue box when you right click and choose exit from the startx.bat window's task bar entry, not just from the X taskbar entry. Plus you have an option to show the root window. I was using Xserv 4.2.0-37, but have just upgraded to 4.2.0-42 and there's no real change. I'm using Window Maker as the window manager, and running 24 bit colour on 1600 x 1192, under Windows XP Professional on a Dell C400 laptop driving an external monitor. One thing I noticed was that when using -multiwindow, for a short while (just after WM replaced the default window decorations with its own), I was able to type a few characters in one of the rxvt windows. By the time WM had started up all my rxvt and xterm windows, though, I could no longer type in any X window. And Xserv 4.2.0-42 seems about 5 to 10 times more responsive at tracking the mouse cursor when using -rootwindow instead of -multiwindow. This sounds to me interesting enough to Cc: to the mailing list - hope you don't mind. Regards, luke
