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windowed mode seemingly unavailable
- From: "Brian Deckard" <netminder39 at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:01:21 +0000
- Subject: windowed mode seemingly unavailable
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I am currently unable to determine how to open a single x-server window
(with multiple x-terms inside), as opposed to the multiple window mode. I
would like to operate inside the single window for performance reasons, and
have done so in the past on a similar Win XP install with Cygwin/X. My
understanding is that the window behavior that I am describing is the
default:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure-cygwin-xfree-options.html
The command I use to launch multiple-window mode is xwin -multiwindow. The
command I have used successfully on a separate installation to launch single
window mode is simply startx. However, on this computer, it appears to
simply bring up an xterm (black window with x icon in upper left corner and
yellow scrollbar) rather than the server window (white background with x
icon in upper left corner and green scrollbars, not sure on exact
terminology).
With both systems, the only customization steps that I have performed (to my
best recollection) are adding the xfree86-base and openssh packages. This
is so that I can open remote apps.
If anyone can point me in the right path, it would be very gratefully
appreciated. I have spent several hours searching myself with google and in
the list archives with very little useful information turned up.
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