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Re: Invisible X client window borders


not much help from me but I had the same problem with TWM myself, no border
when resizing. I think I had border when I was moving but I am not sure it
was a while ago. I downloaded and compiled Blackbox and the problem doesn't
show up under that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwight Schauer" <das@teegra.net>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: Invisible X client window borders


> I'm not sure if this is an Xserver problem or a a window manager on. In
TWM
> and in Afterstep I don't get the rectangle or grid when moving or resizing
> client windows. The proper window decoration does show up on the x
clients.
>
> I have an Nvidia GeForce II MX and Windows XP. (On an Athlon Thunderbird).
>
> I installed the latest Cygwin and Xfree a few days ago. I'm running
AfterStep
> v. 1.8.11 compiled and running under Cygwin/XFree.
>
> I did the same at work a week ago on a different machine, and resizing,
> placing, and moving windows is fine. (I don't have window contents shown
on
> resize or move, and I use manual window placement if there is no room to
> display the window). At work on Cygwin/XFree the grid/rectangle shows up
> correctly in Afterstep, as it does on a native Linux XFree86 server.
>
> Apart from that, XFree and Afterstep seem to be running fine on Cygwin. I
> can't get aterm to work, (it compiles and run and can get as far as
> displaying the shell prompt, but then it locks up) so I'm using the cygwin
> provided rxvt instead and it runs fine under X.


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