Thomas, What CVS tree did you pull this from? Why isn't MATSUZAKI working with us? If I recall correctly, he wrote the Unicode support for xwinclip, right?
Harold Thomas Chadwick wrote: > I tried out this patch (took a few days because I needed to get > xfree86 out of CVS and build it). Very cool. Thanks a bunch to > MATSUZAKI for coding it! You saved me a lot of work. > > Here's a screenshot... > > http://home.adelphia.net/~tlcweb/cygwin/pseudo_rootless_screenshot.gif > > Notice that you can see IE in the background along with some Windows > desktop icons down the left side of the screen. The windows in the > forground are Xclients (namely xterm, xclock, and xeyes). The icon in > the lower left is an iconified Xclient. > > However, I noticed a few strange artifacts of this approach to > rootless mode... > > 1) When you click and drag on an Xwindow to move it, you only see the > bits and pieces of the "rubber band" outline which happen to overlap > the other Xwindows. Where the rubber band overlaps Windows windows, > you see nothing. > > 2) Now that there is no root window, you can't use the XWindows window > manager's root-window menus. > > 3) A favorite tool of mine, x2x, is broken, which is due to the lack > of a root window causing the mouse focus to jump back and forth > XWindows and Windows. > > > Still, if anyone wants to try it out, here's a binary that I built > last night from source I pulled from CVS yesterday... > > http://home.adelphia.net/~tlcweb/cygwin/XWin.exe > > >> From: MATSUZAKI Kensuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Rootless mode revisited... >> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 03:30:50 +0900 >> >> Thomas didn't talk about X Shape Extension. >> I think Thomas's idea is something like this. >> >> With this patch and "-nodecoration" option, it seems to work good. >> >> << pseudo-rootless.patch >> > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Internet access plans that fit your lifestyle -- join MSN. > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp >