Hi, under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon you create a string value named Shell, and you put what you want in it (cmd.exe for example). May be it could be used to load CygWin ? I haven't tried it that way. CU . \)|(/ . (o o) . /-----------------ooO----(_)----Ooo-----------------\ .(_| Francis VIVAT | . | CETP-CNRS | . | 10-12, avenue de l'Europe 78140 Velizy | . | Tel : +33 1 3925 4780 | . | Fax : +33 1 3925 4922 |_ . | E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ) . \---------------------------------------------------/ . (_) (_) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Adamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Splatter van Upchuck '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'cygx '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: RE: KDE (or gnome) > > 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 >
