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RE: x-server with window-manager
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:03:14 -0400
- Subject: RE: x-server with window-manager
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Sven,
> > For future reference, Cygwin/XFree86 is not in any way based on Xnest.
>
>
> i tought that i've read something like that.
> was it Xvfb? but it's not so important...
>
You must be reading some really ancient materials. There was a very early
version of Cygwin/XFree86 (about two or three years ago) that was a hack on
Xvfb. However, since then Cygwin/XFree86 has been completely rewritten and
now we directly use the ``fb'' and ``shadow'' layers that are used by many
of the XFree86 drivers for graphics cards. But, none of that is really
important...
Harold