Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

[Jon Turney]

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:

*** XtoW-20160323-1

xtow is a window manager using the libxcwm library, which is:

* native: it integrates with native window management by putting each 
top-level X window in it's own Windows window (similar to XWin -multiwindow)

* compositing: X windows with per-pixel alpha are composited into the 
native DWM desktop on Windows Vista and later (e.g. a native window can 
be seen through a semi-transparent X window placed over it)

XtoW is still experimental, but should now be usable enough for doing 
some actual work. Testing and problem reports are appreciated.

Changes since 20130802-3:

* Fix transparent windows on Windows 10, copying the approach from [1]. 
  Unfortunately, making this work on Windows 8.1 without 3rd party 
software seems near impossible.

Changes since 20130802-2:

* Rewrite startxtow to use python rather than perl to find the virtual 
desktop size, since perl-Win32-GUI is no longer packaged
* Add xwin-xdg-menu, so there is some means to launch things and exit
* Fix start menu item to use "(32-bit)" on WoW64, and have the correct icon
* Include postinstall and preremove scripts to add and remove start menu 
item in the package

[1] https://github.com/jdmansour/mintty/tree/glass

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Re: Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

[Jon Turney]

On 23/03/2016 14:43, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
> 
> *** XtoW-20160323-1
> 
> xtow is a window manager using the libxcwm library, which is:
> 
> * native: it integrates with native window management by putting each 
> top-level X window in it's own Windows window (similar to XWin 
> -multiwindow)
> 
> * compositing: X windows with per-pixel alpha are composited into the 
> native DWM desktop on Windows Vista and later (e.g. a native window can 
> be seen through a semi-transparent X window placed over it)
> 
> XtoW is still experimental, but should now be usable enough for doing 
> some actual work. Testing and problem reports are appreciated.

I've removed this package, as this experiment has long since run its course.

The useful part of this is now built into the XWin server, so you can 
get the same effect by using the -multiwindow and -compositealpha options.