[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] 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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*XtoW-debuginfo-20160323-1.tar.xz

x86_64:
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*XtoW-debuginfo-20160323-1.tar.xz

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

[Marco Atzeri]

On 23/03/2016 15:43, 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:
>

Any specific reason for this dependency ?

rxvt-unicode	(9.22-1)
	An improved version of rxvt with Unicode support
	Required by: XtoW

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: XtoW 20160323-1 (experimental)

[Jon Turney]

On 24/03/2016 09:12, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 23/03/2016 15:43, 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:
>>
>
> Any specific reason for this dependency ?
>
> rxvt-unicode    (9.22-1)
>      An improved version of rxvt with Unicode support
>      Required by: XtoW

I think xterm doesn't let you specify an alpha value for the colours it 
uses (at least, the last time I looked, years ago)

But startxtow starting a terminal dates to before xwin-xdg-menu exists, 
so maybe it shouldn't start a terminal at all now...


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XtoW 20160323-1 feedback

[Marco Atzeri]

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On 23/03/2016 15:43, Jon Turney wrote:
>
> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
>
> *** XtoW-20160323-1
>

On W7 - Cygwin X86_64

- first run of urxvt ignore font size settings from
   .Xdefaults / .Xresources.
   The second run uses it.

- xwin-xdg-menu and urxvt doesn't work very well
    xwin-xdg-menu takes 23% of CPU time running 1 urxvt process
    ~46 for 2 urxvt and ~53 % with 3.
   No negative effect running multiples xterm's

- UK Keyboard layout not recognized. Keys seem a US like

- Changing Windows Keyboard Layout to DE has no effect

- startxtow output has different info than log file
   attached both.

Logging the full output I noticed
--------------------------------------------
DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow failed: 80263001, 0
-----------------------------------------------
This is continuously repeated every time a key is pressed
in the fist urxvt but not in the second lunched as "urxvt &"

Closing urxvt processes produces:
--------------------------------------------
DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow failed: 80263001, 0
_xcwm_atoms_set_wm_state: XID 0x00600009 state 0
xwinclip: winClipboardProc - X connection ready, pumping X event queue
xwinclip: winClipboardFlushXEvents - XFixesSetSelectionOwnerNotify
xwinclip: MonitorSelection - PRIMARY - Going from owned to not owned.
xwinclip: MonitorSelection - PRIMARY - Now owned by XID 0
xwinclip: winClipboardFlushXEvents - No window, returning.
Error received in event loop.
Error code: 3
ID: 0x00600009
Major opcode: 18
Minor opcode: 0
Error received in event loop.
Error code: 3
ID: 0x00600009
Major opcode: 18
Minor opcode: 0
Error received in event loop.
Error code: 3
ID: 0x00600009
Major opcode: 10
Minor opcode: 0
Error received in event loop.
Error code: 148
ID: 0x00a00007
Major opcode: 142
Minor opcode: 2
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] 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.