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From: arlindo AT niteroi DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov (Arlindo da Silva)
Subject: Re: Problem with `window manager already running' X-windows erro
5 Feb 1998 09:31:46 -0800 :
Message-ID: <199802051223.HAA01064.cygnus.gnu-win32@woodmore.gsfc.nasa.gov>
References: <199802050922 DOT KAA11571 AT mailnews DOT kub DOT nl>
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To: M DOT H DOT M DOT Michels AT kub DOT nl
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Tijs,

> However, using X-Util32 you can tell X-Win32 to go into a "single 
> window mode" (select Option -> Window settings -> Single). Now you 
> can use any window manager you like. In the "single window mode"
> you can also play a script like the one in the MI/X example above 
> (except of course for the first line).

Thank you for the correction.

> 
> BTW, switching from MI/X to X-Win32 solved the problem I reported 
> earlier regarding XPaint-2.5.3. Of course this is not really a 
> solution, since X-Win32 is not free, far from it.
> 

Attempts to get the sources for MI/X server didn't get anywhere. Since their
attitude is "we don't need it, we don't fix it", I don't think there is much
we can do.

BTW, I sent my patches to the maintainer of xpaint so future versions may
compile out of the tarfile.

-- 
Arlindo da Silva    
dasilva AT alum DOT mit DOT edu


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