Netmeeting and Cygwin/XFree86 in fullscreen mode both need an exclusive lock on DirectDraw. At least, that is what makes sense to me. One way around this is to use the "-engine 1" command-line parameter for XWin.exe. This will tell XWin.exe to use the GDI based (i.e. non-DirectDraw) engine to draw its graphics. You will notice it is a little more sluggish than the DirectDraw engine (which is used by default), but it will solve your problems with NetMeeting.
Let us know if this works for you,
Harold
Jeffrey C Honig wrote:
I've recently switched back to Cygwin/XFree86 from Exceed (ugh) and rediscovered a problem.
I'm running XFree86 with -fullscreen on my Win2k laptop. Whenever I start NetMeeting to join a call, XFree86 will no longer display until I exit NetMeeting. If I use Alt-Tab to switch to XFree86, it will not be restored. As soon as I exit NetMeeting I am able to switch to XFree86 again.
What gives?
Thanks.
Jeff