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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:38:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz AT yahoo DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: exceed and xfree
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:

> well, this is more or less like a windows/dos problem:
>
> I do not like the cygwin dos window, so everytime I
> run cygwin, I go straight to open an xterm with my own
> color and size...
> but I do not like the cygwin xserver either because it
> either have to be in a big window or full
> screen...well, I still have to work with my win2k darn
> it!
> so, I use exceed..
>
> So, I changed startxwin.bat so that it opens up an
> xterm only, of course, I need to have exceed running
> before hand...
>
> so here's the question: what code do I add to
> startxwin.bat so that it detect if exceed is running
> already and run it before running xterm if not....

Just run exceed.exe every time.  It'll detect that it's already running
and won't start another session.

> here's another question: is it possible for cygwin's
> xserver to use the native windows manager (like cygwin
> does) and do have to be so annoying big everytime??
>
> Thanx

Xwin -rootless (+ a window manager) or Xwin -multiwindow
	Igor
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