not much help from me but I had the same problem with TWM myself, no border when resizing. I think I had border when I was moving but I am not sure it was a while ago. I downloaded and compiled Blackbox and the problem doesn't show up under that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwight Schauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Invisible X client window borders > I'm not sure if this is an Xserver problem or a a window manager on. In TWM > and in Afterstep I don't get the rectangle or grid when moving or resizing > client windows. The proper window decoration does show up on the x clients. > > I have an Nvidia GeForce II MX and Windows XP. (On an Athlon Thunderbird). > > I installed the latest Cygwin and Xfree a few days ago. I'm running AfterStep > v. 1.8.11 compiled and running under Cygwin/XFree. > > I did the same at work a week ago on a different machine, and resizing, > placing, and moving windows is fine. (I don't have window contents shown on > resize or move, and I use manual window placement if there is no room to > display the window). At work on Cygwin/XFree the grid/rectangle shows up > correctly in Afterstep, as it does on a native Linux XFree86 server. > > Apart from that, XFree and Afterstep seem to be running fine on Cygwin. I > can't get aterm to work, (it compiles and run and can get as far as > displaying the shell prompt, but then it locks up) so I'm using the cygwin > provided rxvt instead and it runs fine under X.