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RE: Obtaining Hummingbird-like behavior
- From: Brian Dunbar <Brian dot Dunbar at plexus dot com>
- To: "'Nicholas Wourms '" <nwourms at yahoo dot com>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com '" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>, "'David Brusowankin '" <david at brusowankin dot net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:08:22 -0500
- Subject: RE: Obtaining Hummingbird-like behavior
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Wourms
--- David Brusowankin <david@brusowankin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like Xfree86 under cygwin to display an app without the X
> desktop taking over over my windows, a la Hummingbird. Using
> Hummingbird one can either run in a mode where the X desktop rules or
where the X > desktop is invisible (or somehow not required) and the only
thing that shows up is the application gui.
David,
Now why on earth would you want to get rid of the pretty X desktop?
You know you don't have to use TWM, there is BlackBox, KDE,
Afterstep...
Assuming you're not speaking tongue in cheek, Nicholas, I can see a need for
doing this ... and intend to demo it on some of haplass end users someday.
I have users, they need the stuff (apps and scripts) we run on Unix. But
they can't be bothered to either stroll across the room to an available
terminal, or XDM into the system. I can either bitch and moan, or I can
roll with the punches and make it easy for them ... they DO pay my salary
after all. If they can launch $UNIX_APP from their Windows 2k Start Menu,
they are happy and life goes on.
They don't have to 'know' it's Unix, because everyone knows Unix is hard to
use . . .
~brian