Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Peter Colovas
I think the multi-window mode of xfree is great work. Since the addition of the changeable window title it has been everything I need. I have a feature request. I don't know how difficult it would be, but it would be great if the right click menu in the trayy had the option to open an new

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
How about putting an xterm shortcut in your start menu (or wherever you launch you windows apps from)? jeremy Peter Colovas wrote: I think the multi-window mode of xfree is great work. Since the addition of the changeable window title it has been everything I need. I have a feature request. I

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, It's a bit of a clienty thing. I've got up to 5 remote linux machines + a local cygwin XFree86 which I display via XWin multi. The design would need to incorp. some kind of client chooser. You can always launch a new xterm from a Cygwin shell. Colin

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Peter Colovas
Gee, hadn't thought of that. I often forget the separation between windows and xfree is not absolute. -Pete Jeremy Wilkins wrote: How about putting an xterm shortcut in your start menu (or wherever you launch you windows apps from)? jeremy Peter Colovas wrote: I think the multi-window mode

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Peter, I think this is doable. We already know the server display and screen number, so we could create a DISPLAY environment variable to pass to a new shell. We could also construct a PATH variable that might be able to deduce the location of cygwin1.dll... but I think that would already

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I don't think a client chooser would be needed. Each display/screen registers its own notification tray icon and the functionality of 'launch xterm' could only be to launch an xterm that is running on the local machine and connected to the local display. It would have to be disabled for

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jeremy, At 08:47 2003-06-02, Peter Colovas wrote: I think the multi-window mode of xfree is great work. Since the addition of the changeable window title it has been everything I need. I have a feature request. I don't know how difficult it would be, but it would be great if the right click

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: Jeremy, At 08:47 2003-06-02, Peter Colovas wrote: I think the multi-window mode of xfree is great work. Since the addition of the changeable window title it has been everything I need. I have a feature request. I don't know how difficult it would

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Hola all, At 04:12 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: ...Perhaps a separate X client that runs in multiwindow mode and provides the root menu functionality might be a better idea... It could modify the standard Windows root menu by adding a submenu, which it would then have complete control over...

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Earle F. Philhower III wrote: Hola all, At 04:12 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: ...Perhaps a separate X client that runs in multiwindow mode and provides the root menu functionality might be a better idea... It could modify the standard Windows root menu by adding a

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Igor... At 11:05 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Umm, Earle, you didn't quote the complete message. The shortcut is almost what I was suggesting in the first part of it (quoted below): At 04:12 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, I wrote: IMO, the ability to start clients is the function of the window

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Earle F. Philhower III wrote: Howdy Igor... At 11:05 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Umm, Earle, you didn't quote the complete message. The shortcut is almost what I was suggesting in the first part of it (quoted below): At 04:12 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, I wrote: IMO, the

Re: Multiwindow request

2003-06-03 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
Earle F. Philhower III wrote: I am still at a loss as to what you gain by running multiple XWin instances in multiwindow mode. What does that buy you? I mean, how can you tell that some random window is on Xwin multiwin server 1 vs. 2? If some are fullscreen, then you're running a WM in