> From: Splatter van Upchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > What else runs under XFree then?
My windows development environment (for Win32 code, not cygwin code). I use Icewm for my window manager, Vi (vim) is my editor of choice, gnu make is much better that nmake that ships with visual studio. You can always invoke win32 apps from cygwin (some even appear on my icewm tool bar). If you want a web browser, office apps etc then you may as well just use the native windows one - they work well. Cygwin comes in when I want a sane development environment, a nice shell (bash or cmd.exe - hum, tough choice ;)) and that feeling that I'm working with and not fighting against my environment. Xfree86 also makes a good Xterminal for unix machines. With a few of the patches that have gone in over the last month and native clipboard support coming soon (if I knew how to hook into the XEvent queue then merging xwinclip and Xwin would be high on my list of things to do) it's very usable and free (unlike eXceed, XWin32 etc). Here's a question - can I stop windows from loading explorer on startup and get it to load Xfree86 instead? I know you could do this under Win95 - is it still possible under 2000 ? Stuart
