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Re: New X server


Ryan Stewart wrote:
> Hi. I appreciate the work you guys do for Cygwin, but I just got
> blasted with the new xorg-server update when I was just trying to grab
> another package. I say "blasted" because it was not a good thing.

It's perhaps somewhat unfortunate that cygwin setup doesn't default to "keep"
rather than "curr", or at least remember your preference from last time, but
that's not my area.

> Where I used to be able to lay out nice, clean terminal windows across
> my Windows desktop, I now have a single, monolithic, unresizable
> "Cygwin/X:0.0" window that seems to have a few terminal windows in it
> and nothing else. These terminaman xl windows are anything but nice and
> clean, like the previous ones were. They're not resizable, either, and
> also unmovable. 

It sounds like you have somehow lost "-multiwindow" from the command used to
start the X server (so the server is operating in the default, windowed mode).
 You don't say how you're starting the X server so I can't guess how that
might be.

You might try starting the X server via the link under "Cygwin X" in the start
menu.

> They have clunky menu bars at the top, and some of
> them overflow the bottom of the Cygwin/X window that they're in, 

I'm guessing these "terminal windows" are Xterms.

This is a consequence of an update to Xterm.

Run xterm +tb, or add "XTerm*toolBar: false" to ~/.Xdefaults

> and
> there's no way to move down and see the overflow.

> All in all, the update completely broke X for me. What do I need to do
> to get it usable? I've already read this:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html


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