billh wrote:
Any discussion of internal vs external window management cannot take
place without acknowledging the fact that we are talking about XWindows
operating within another window system, Cygwin/X. The immediate fact
here is that any action that a window manager takes that is
At 01:00 AM 9/7/2005, you wrote
i installed cygwin with no problems at all but when i
type startx after opening cygwin, nothing happens. i get
some text but no xterm window will pop up. ive googled and
searched the archives but have had trouble finding anything
similar to my problem. below is
I seem to recall some discussion about why X announcements weren't
forwarded to this list from cygwin-xfree-announce (the way they are to the
main Cygwin list from cygwin-announce), but can't find it at the moment.
Could someone refresh my memory? Are the reasons still relevant?
Thanks,
I cam across this description of an X server design within windows:
http://research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJL03/DTJL03.HTM
It has a Win32 WM interface that is functionally seperate, and uses
Win32 Hooks to proxy Win32 WndProc messages; essentially the same as I
recently suggested.
The issues that arose over the six or seven years were various and
particular to each application that some customer was dependent upon.
One class of problems you could describe as a clash between window
managers, Windows and X . This could easily occur for modal popup
windows, override
