-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fred,
Thanks for the reply, it eased my mind a _lot_. I think I have a fairly workable install of Cygwin and Xfree on my machine. I grabbed the same xinitrc file you mentioned and then took a look at the startxwin.sh file. A few cuts and pastes in Ultra Edit, a funnily formatted save as command (I'm not used to saving as ".xinitrc" i.e. extension only in Windows or hidden file in Unix, on my Windows box) and both startxwin.bat and running startx from the command prompt work the same and pretty much the way I want. I'll have a look at the man page for startx fairly soon to see if I can get a non full screen window like the startxwin.sh does. SFFM> I found that I had to run startx from /usr/X11R6/bin. SFFM> Simply putting the directory into my path didn't work. Interesting you should mention that. I have absolutely no problem here on Win98 SE. Do you, like me, have the latest version of Cygwin1.dll? The next step will be getting KDE 2 to run here. Once I have that then I will feel more confident that I can get the programming project I'm working on started in a real programming environment instead of on paper. I want this program to be a go in both UNIX derived and Windows environments. I notice that you are with or in the Dept. of Electronics at Carleton. Interesting coincidence, I'm a C. Tech. in Electronics. Unemployed right now while I await an operation, but still a C. Tech. I don't know how you knew, but I'm glad you did. Thanks once again for the help and a belated "Happy New Year" of the sheep. Best regards, Magus - -- Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 1:34:26 AM, you wrote: >> Subject: Beginners questions. >> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:07:05 -0600 >> From: Magus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Cygwin-XFree Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi All, >> >> I think I've got Cygwin and XFree installed correctly on my >> Win98 SE box. I type "think" because I have no standard to go >> by. How can I tell when Cygwin is correctly installed? It >> currently runs and I can access info, man, sh, bc and most >> other good things that I know about. >> >> I'm in the same position with the X window stuff. I have no >> idea what I'm supposed to see. Since there are at least three >> ways of starting X detailed in the FAQ/User Manual, I'd like to >> try and tell you folks what I see when I try them and then you >> can tell me if this is normal or not, OK?- -- >> Best regards, >> Magus SFFM> Hey, Magus, SFFM> I don't think there's a "normal" X window. It depends SFFM> on what's in your ~/.xinitrc. I copied it from /etc/X11/xinit. SFFM> This is one of the ways of starting up X, using the startx SFFM> command. I found that I had to run startx from /usr/X11R6/bin. SFFM> Simply putting the directory into my path didn't work. SFFM> In ~/.xinitrc, twm starts the window manqager. You will see 3 SFFM> commands to start xterms, and 1 to start a clock. That's SFFM> what you should get on your desktop. The first thing I did SFFM> was replace all that stuff with stuff I normally start up on SFFM> the sun boxes (I use twm instead of the sun desktop). That SFFM> varies from individual to individual. SFFM> The capabilities of twm are in the man page, but it's kind of SFFM> hard to read. I would search for a tutorial on the web. But SFFM> a bit of experimenation reveals pretty all there is (it's a SFFM> bare bones windows manager). Most of the functionality SFFM> can be seen in the popup menus, which show up when you SFFM> click the mouse on the desktop, away from any windows. SFFM> Some xterm options menus can be seen by pressing SFFM> control-mouse-button in the xterm. SFFM> The good thing about twm is that it's easier than other SFFM> window managers to customize, since everything is in SFFM> the man page. It's not light reading, and requires SFFM> experimentation, but probably way simpler than SFFM> customizing, say, Sun's CDE. SFFM> Good luck. And hope it's an interesting experience, SFFM> exploring the vagaries of X, though it's admittedly not SFFM> always straightforward. SFFM> Fred SFFM> -- SFFM> Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SFFM> Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics SFFM> 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario SFFM> Canada, K1S 5B6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQA/AwUBPkBjHPqiG3YPjS8zEQKSwwCff3/Xfd71xrWMR/HagF9DdB2ejpQAnjdt leTyF7OSLVFHmlR+XJVukOL5 =fBjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
