Hi Scott;
Thank you so much for the lead. I'm sick at home today, but I will put
this to use tomorrow at work!
Ken
On 10/2/07, Scott Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I spent some time trying to get konsole and
> gnome-terminal to work under cygwin to my satisfaction and ultimately found
> a tabbed terminal emulator called Terminator
> (http://software.jessies.org/terminator/)
> that gave me exactly what I needed. I encourage you to see if it addresses
> your needs before spending too much time trying to get KDE or GNOME working
> under Cygwin. Even when I got them working, they were VERY slow and
> unstable at best whereas Terminator is VERY fast.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> On 10/2/07, Kenneth Wolcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi;
> >
> > Let me rephrase my question.
> >
> > I don't need a kde desktop or a gnome desktop on my Windoze XP machine
> > from Cygwin. What I need is the KDE app called "konsole". I need to have
> > a tabbed multi-session terminal that I can copy & paste between the tabs and
> > that I can rename the tabs. konsole is the best one I've ever seen. What
> > do I need to do to get konsole to work from Cygwin?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Kenneth Wolcott < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> > Date: Sep 26, 2007 7:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Cygwin-ports-general] how to start kde or gnome desktop in
> > Cygwin? I've installed everything
> > To: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Hi Yaakov;
> >
> > That's what I thought, startkde. But it fails.
> >
> > I get an X message window which states:
> > "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation."
> >
> > I have already performed a startxwin.sh from the cygwin cmd
> > window/shell.
> >
> > I get the same error message after I have shutdown X Windows.
> >
> > $ startkde
> > xsetroot: unable to open display ' 172.24.72.75:0 .0'
> > Error: Can't open display: 172.24.72.75:0.0
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 77:
> > /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/config/startupconfig: No s
> > uch file or directory
> >
> > No matter what I set the DISPLAY environment variable to, I get the the
> > first error. Interesting that I don't get that error when I use
> > startxwin.sh...
> >
> > $ startkde
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 77:
> > /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/config/startupconfig: No s
> > uch file or directory
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ ls -ld /home/
> > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 kwolcott mkgroup-l-d 0 Aug 29 17:54 /home/
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ ls -ld /home/kwolcott/
> > drwxr-xr-x+ 16 kwolcott mkgroup-l-d 0 Sep 25 18:31 /home/kwolcott/
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ ls -ld /home/kwolcott/.kde/
> > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 kwolcott mkgroup-l-d 0 Sep 24 18:09 /home/kwolcott/.kde/
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ ls -ld /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/
> > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 kwolcott mkgroup-l-d 0 Sep 24 18:09
> > /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ ls -ld /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/config/
> > drwxr-xr-x+ 2 kwolcott mkgroup-l-d 0 Sep 24 18:11
> > /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/conf
> > ig/
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ ls -ld /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/config/startupconfigkeys
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kwolcott mkgroup-l-d 291 Sep 26 07:11
> > /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/con
> > fig/startupconfigkeys
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ cat /home/kwolcott/.kde/share/config/startupconfigkeys
> > kcminputrc Mouse cursorTheme ''
> > kcminputrc Mouse cursorSize ''
> > kpersonalizerrc General FirstLogin true
> > ksplashrc KSplash Theme Default
> > kcmrandrrc Display ApplyOnStartup false
> > kcmrandrrc [Screen0]
> > kcmrandrrc [Screen1]
> > kcmrandrrc [Screen2]
> > kcmrandrrc [Screen3]
> > kcmfonts General forceFontDPI 0
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ which kcminputrc
> > kcminputrc: Command not found.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ which kpersonalizerrc
> > kpersonalizerrc: Command not found.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ which ksplashrc
> > ksplashrc: Command not found.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ which kcmrandrrc
> > kcmrandrrc: Command not found.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> > $ which kcmfonts
> > kcmfonts: Command not found.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> >
> > On 9/25/07, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> > wrote:
> > >
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> > > Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > > > How to start kde or gnome desktop in Cygwin?
> > >
> > > The same way you would on Linux: startkde or gnome-session. Although
> > > I
> > > will warn you that the desktops themselves tend to be VERY slow on
> > > Cygwin, more so than individual apps.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yaakov
> > > Cygwin Ports
> > >
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