How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Harold Hunt
Now that we have the -nodecoration parameter we can start messing around with making the some initial moves towards a rootless mode, just like XDarwin. Here are some initial steps to take that would help you learn a little about creating a rootless mode: 1) Start off by simply overriding

Re: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
1) Start off by simply overriding PaintWindowBackground to paint a transparent background to cause the X Windows (still managed by a window manager such as twm) to 'float' above the Windows desktop when Cygwin/XFree86 has the focus. starting at search.microsoft.com gives :

Re: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: Now that we have the -nodecoration parameter we can start messing around with making the some initial moves towards a rootless mode, just like XDarwin. Here are some initial steps to take that would help you learn a little about creating a rootless mode: [...] If you do

Re: [patch] cursor

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: Was that with your modified server or with the Test57 server? I had to reimplement the showing/hiding logic in the Test57 server since I couldn't use your patch directly... so I need to know which one has the problem. It was with my modified version. I'm going to look at

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 57

2002-06-09 Thread Harold Hunt
Jehan, That last message fired off before I was done... my Ctrl key is sticking so when I hit Enter it sent a Ctrl+Enter, which sends the message. I don't think you need to manage the cursor in WM_ACTIVATEAPP, managing it in WM_ACTIVATE should be enough because, if I'm not wrong, XWin will

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Baruch Shpirer
HOW MANY TIMEs DO I NEED TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST TO REALY GET OFF IT ???

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan Something
HOW MANY TIMEs DO I NEED TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST TO REALY GET OFF IT ??? I'm not the maintainer of this mailing list so I don't known why you send this message to me!! Go read http://cygwin.com/lists.html to see of you are doing it correctly and, if you do and it still doesn't work, to

[PATCH] + Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 57

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: Jehan, That last message fired off before I was done... my Ctrl key is sticking so when I hit Enter it sent a Ctrl+Enter, which sends the message. I don't think you need to manage the cursor in WM_ACTIVATEAPP, managing it in WM_ACTIVATE should be enough because, if I'm

[FAQ] 1.8. Is there a Cygwin/XFree86 newsgroup?

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan
On the server news.gmane.org, the mailing list has been mapped to the group gmane.os.cygwin.xfree. It's quite convenient except that I haven't been able to post to the mailing list via the group. But since it's not required to be a member of the list to post, it's not a big deal. Jehan