On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:12:27AM -0500, Doug Bohl wrote: > After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers > running in Cygwin/X. What I'm wondering is this: Is it at all > possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X > window manager? Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running > some X programs, I'd have to alt+tab out of X and into explorer. > > If this isn't possible, what would I have to do to make it possible? > Maybe write an X program to 'trap' the window of a Windows program > into an invisible X window. Or something like that. > My approach is simply to run multiple desktops on my windows machine. I dedicate one to Cygwin/X and use the others for Windows programs.
XP has a simple multi-desktop system that comes with it (I can't remember what it's called though), I use V-Com's PowerDesk myself. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/