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RE: Can you hide the Xwin program?
- To: "'Miles Roper'" <mroper at westcoastdhb dot org dot nz>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Can you hide the Xwin program?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:30:03 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Roper [mailto:mroper@westcoastdhb.org.nz]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:29 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: Can you hide the Xwin program?
>
> I suppose what I want is to do what XManager does (shareware). It
> operates
> in a Multiple Window Mode, and allows you to use MS Windows as the
> Background. So the actual X server is hidden from view, its still there,
> but as a minimized application.
Not possible in the current versions of X-server. You are welcome to
contribute.
Suhaib
>The reason that I want to do it this way,
> is so we could gradually replace M$ apps, i.e. replace M$ Word with Kword
> etc... This would make the changes fairly transparent to the user.
>
> Well, I got to go to sleep :o)
>
> Cheers
>
> Miles