On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:35, Keith Thompson wrote: > > I definitely don't want -multiwindow or -rootless (just a matter of > personal taste), but "XWin -nodecoration" seems to work. In fact, > "-fullscreen" and "-nodecoration" seem to work nearly the same, except > that "-nodecoration" doesn't have the alt-tab problem. What's the > difference between them?
Keith, Harold, I'm also one of those who like the fullscreen modus, so I played with the two options. It seems to me that the difference is : With -nodecoration you get a (nearly) fullscreen X-window, but the (Windows-)Taskbar is still visible. You will of course not notice this difference if you have it hidden. With -fullscreen the taskbar is invisible. I still have to find out which of the two suits me better. I also played with the -keyhook option. Even though it is not mentioned in "X -help" it seems to work. Alt-Tab finds its way to my windowmanager (fvwm). Unfortunatly this seems to be the only key which is hooked in this fashion. What I really would like, is that all keys (except one dedicated) are processed by X. Eg. if I have made a (Windows-)keycut for ctr-alt-1 and I have the same keycut for fvwm I want fvwm to receive this keycut. At present it finds it's way to windows. I know this behaviour from e.g VMWare and remotePC. VMWare uses the left-alt-key and remotePC uses cntrl-esc to switch back to windows (or should I say to "unhook"). Nevertheless I want to express my appreciation for the great work done by the cyg-group. I was impressed by the little pain it took me to get my linux-evironment running smoothless under this environment. Thanx a lot for your efforts. Michael Naumann