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Almost right: the Windows are managed by thw Window Manager, sort of like iexplore.exe in Windows, with the X Display Server being like Win32 GDI.When I first installed Cygwin/X and tried, I ran into the same puzzlement, if not panic.
All the xterms and xclock I started were heaped into the same corner, intransigently unmoveable. (The sun shall not strike thee, nor the moon by night and your feet will not be moved, as though).
Then I recalled, hmm .... There is an X Display Server and then there is an X Display Manager. I think. I'm sure I have not confused the terminology.
So I looked into the startxwin files and was asActually, the MultiWindow mode is nicer; it wraps windows to be managed by the native Win32 window manager, and also gets rid of the "extra desktop" root window.
assured to find twm (which I guessed correctly is
an X display mgr) commented out.
I uncommented it and when XWin restarted
my xterms and xclock were moveable.
But I didn't like twm because the extremity of my X habits tends to pile up lots of windows and would have me a hard time searching for them without a desktop window locater. Which led me to install wmaker.
Sure, that would work just fine. X is well-designed enough to do such things, even if the remote host has a different binary format. You'll never see that from MS...Or get a little more screwy, start x server on my laptop cygwin, throw wmaker from my win2k box to my laptop, login to sun box and throw xterms to my laptop.
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