Re: Generic rootless

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

Brian E. Gallew wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > -win32rootless is going to cause a lot of trouble for people to 
> > remember, and most people will get confused about the distinction 
> > between -rootless and -win32rootless.  Is there any reason to suspect 
> > that the old '-oldrootless' will remain in use after the new 
> > '-rootless' is available?  It would seem to me that we might even want 
> > to just replace the original rootless functionality with the new 
> > functionality that uses the shared code.
> >
> > Anybody have some input on this?
>
>
> Post a binary and I'll let you know!  8-}

Okay, unfortunately this can only be built from CVS head, so it can't be 
distributed as a 'test' release via setup.exe.  Ugh... this is going to 
get me into the same sort of thing that was the Server Test Series.  I 
really don't want to go down that route again... but I will post one 
binary for people to check out:

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/XWin-rootless-20031020-1341.exe.bz2 
(1.3 MiB)

If you don't know what to do with the above, then please just forget 
about it; do not ask for help, you will not receive any.  This is only 
to enable other developers and very advanced users to provide feedback 
on the new shared rootless code.

> I think the real question here is: how is the new rootless mode going to 
> affect multi-window mode (if at all)?  I've used the old rootless mode, 
> and like it a lot, BUT it's really convenient to have my windows show up 
> in the task bar/menu.

This won't have any effect on multi-window mode for now.  The rootless 
mode still requires an external window manager.  We may rewrite the 
current multi-window mode as an external window manager, which would 
allow the new rootless mode and the new external window manager to do 
the same thing as the current multi-window mode.

Harold