In response to your first question - the patch isn't in CVS. I pulled the source from CVS, applied the patch that was posted to the ML, then built it. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
As for your other 2 questions - I don't have an answer. The fact that Matsuzaki posted this patch came as a complete surprise to me. I had every intention of developing and experimenting with such a patch myself. He just beat me to it. >From: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Rootless mode revisited... >Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:26:20 -0400 > >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 >> _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp
