On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:10:19 -0400
"Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Dude, you kick ASS! And it was so simple. Now if we could only *replace*
> > > the friggin windows environ with X altogether we might be halfway toward
> > > what some of us consider an *actual* user-friendly interface.
>
> > well, actually, i think you probably could.
> >
> > there's probably a way to change windows' default
> > shell from "explorer.exe" to something else...
> > (but i don't know for certain)
>
> In fact, there is. I was amazed when I found out, didn't think it was
> actually possible. But people have done it - search the web for
> "litestep" and "windows shell" or something like that. It looks like
> NeXT, kinda.
>
> -Jan
take a look at $WINDOWS-DIR\SYSTEM.INI, there is a line like
'shell=C:\windumm\explorer.exe' in '[boot]' section .. you could
maybe write some small .bat file which starts your X-server and WM
instead of explorer.exe.
didn't tried it myself yet, but i thought of this several times
already.
/lenix
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