From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5398 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2003 23:15:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5386 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 23:15:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO esds.vss.fsi.com) (66.136.174.212) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2003 23:15:25 -0000 Received: from eos.vss.fsi.com (eos [198.51.27.61]) by esds.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id hBANFOP14884 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:15:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (ford@localhost) by eos.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBANFOt22646 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:15:24 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:15:00 -0000 From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: how to make xterm point for active window without mouse click In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00212.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Haomin Wu wrote: > Does anyone understand what I am stating below? > Yes. > Since no any response so far, maybe I did not describe it clearly. > Some people on this list are students and are very busy with finals now. Others have year end projects at work to wrap up. Please be patient. > If you have any inputs, let me know. > > I have recently installed cygwin on my pc windown-xp. > You meant Windows XP. > The cygwin version 2.416. > No. That is the version of the Cygwin installer (setup.exe) that you used. See the output of "uname -a" for the Cygwin version. > I run startxwin on my window dos prompt and get a xfree86 server > running on the window. I find one thing amazing is that all x-terms can > be opened on MS window xp instead on the xfree86 own window which used > to be the case with previous version. > startxwin now uses the -multiwindow switch to enable the native Windows XP window manager instead of twm or the like. Stay tuned for an even more improved version comming soon. > But one thing that I don't quite > like is that now all the xterm windows don't have the point-to-active > functions which should be the case in x-window. Now every time, I want > to type commands on a xterm, I have to use mouse click to make it active > like MS window. This is really inconienent. Is there any way I can set > up the windows for mouse point-to-make acive. > This is a function of your window manager. You have two options: 2.) Edit the startxwin.sh script to remove the -multiwindow switch and use a window manager such as twm that you have configured to react this way. 2.) Continue using -multiwindow and try XP PowerToys Tweakui, although I believe there are behavioral problems here as well, YMMV. With it, you can make all of Windows act the way you want. See: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444