Re: x-server with window-manager

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Frank,

I'm not sure if Cygwin proper maintains an open development items list, 
but Cygwin/XFree86 has a development to-do page:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html

Some of the items listed on that page are more housekeeping, such as 
integrating the Wine DirectDraw headers with Cygwin's win32api package, 
while others are sort of wish-list items, such as writing the 
Windows-based window manager that works together with the new rootless 
mode.  The new rootless mode itself will require a lot of attention, as 
we could provide an option that would allow root menus to work (but this 
wouldn't allow you to click the focus through to a Windows window; we 
also need to handle non-rectangular windows created with the X Shape 
Extension.

Then there is xwinclip, which Chris Twiner has put a lot of work into 
and I need to review and accept his patches... his work should allow us 
to integrate clipboard support into XWin.exe, rather than having to run 
a stand-alone executable.

Hmm... I just realized that the To-Do list needs to be updated and 
several items need to be added.  I will try to get around to that soon.

Harold

Lane, Frank L wrote:

> Hi Harold,
>
> I'm trying to learn and maybe that puts me out of the loop here.  But, I'll
> ask anyway.  Is there a place users, like myself, can go and see a list of
> outstanding projects for cygwin?  You know, the one's that you authors would
> allow us to help on.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:05 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: x-server with window-manager
>
>
> Sven,
>
> <snip>
> I said earlier that you would still have to run an X Window Manager.  Yes,
> Cygwin/XFree86 will eventually have a window manager that opens X windows in
> Windows windows.  However, we only got rootless support three days ago, so I
> wouldn't count on that integrated window manager being finished any time
> soon, unless you are willing to help write it.
>
> Harold
>