Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration

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

Randall,

No, there is no such combination of flags.

How do you intend to set the focus to Cygwin/XFree86 without a taskbar 
entry?  I mean, you could minimize it and not be able to get it back.

In the future, when we write the Windows-based window manager, I intend 
to make Cygwin/XFree86 use a system tray icon rather than a taskbar 
icon, but only when using the Windows-based window manager.

Now, from the perspective of building a correct application, can't you 
see that it would be incredibly non-standard of us to allow 
Cygwin/XFree86 to not have a taskbar icon?  No other Windows application 
that needs to be minimized/restored/closed has that behavior. 
Typically, only applications that are either closed or open are in the 
system tray.  Can you see my point?  I suppose you could code such a 
feature if you wanted that did not change the default behavior, but I'm 
not sure how much use it would be to others...

Harold

Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please forgive my creative capitalization in the Subject line.
>
> I had hoped that using "-nodecoration" with "-rootless" would prevent 
> the XWin server getting a taskbar icon, but alas, no.
>
> Is there a combination of options or a configuration file or 
> environment setting that will suppress the taskbar icon in rootless mode?
>
>
> Oh, yeah... Rootless Rocks!
>
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA