Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:59:23PM -0700, Jean Florentine wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> If somebody would have a ready  configuration for a
>>  rootless window manager with a button  small window
>> and a page manager could you please send me a copy of it.
>> Many thanks.
>> John
>
> Oddly enough you'll need to be more specific.
>
> Rootless window manager?  What's this?

I sure didn't know what that meant either.
But, Google knows all.

My take is it's a misnomer.
It's X that starts in rootless mode, not the window manager.
Here's a screenshot of Fvwm running under Cygwin/X in rootless mode:

http://x.cygwin.com/screenshots/cygx-rootless-fvwm2-20031224-0010.png

I have no idea how a pager would make sense in an environment like that.

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