[email protected] schrieb am 16.06.05 15:26:10: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Andreas Eibach wrote: > > > - Most people would use startx to start the X Window session as they're > > used to it from Linux. > > Strangely though, startx does NOT open a "real" X main window, but an xterm > > ONLY. > > Is there a reason why? I think it's misleading. > > Many people requested that startx would use the multiwindow mode instead of > the > single window mode. So the startup scripts were changed to reflect that. > > > xinit, however, does the thing that *I* want, that is, a big window that > > fills the whole screen and launches an xterm on the upper left edge. > > you can customize how xinit (and startx) start xserver and clients. > > Add a $HOME/.xserverrc which start XWin without the -multiwindow option but > the > -scrollbars options and $HOME/.xinitrc which is the same as the one in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc but which starts an additional windowmanager.
Been through that already, but thanks anyway. :) > > Unfortunately, the window is not resizable. > > There is an option -scrollbars which might do that (resizable window and > scrollbars > to adjust the position) Yes! That helped. > > However, with the old framebuffer-based experimental X version, I remember > > a pre-installed window manager *with* pull-down menus. I managed to load a > > window manager (by typing /usr/X11R6/bin/twm &), but there were still no > > pull-down menus. I like(d) fvwm / fvwm2 a lot and it had everything I > > needed in X. > > The cygwin distribution contains windowmaker and I remember users which > used openbox too. Yes, thanks! Windowmaker is exactly what I need. (although I'd like to have fvwm2 too, I wonder why it is not offered ... ? My fuzzy memory tells me in the old alpha X version(s), fvwm2 was used indeed. But maybe my memory fails completely here.) > > I hope that I do not need Gnome to be able to work reasonably with X? I > > like menus, but I do not need a Windoze-ish task bar; I never needed it in > > Linux anyway. > > I also found all Cygwin-X start menu entries EMPTY, hence I assume that > > Cygwin X expects from me that I want Gnome (which I do not need in any > > case, at least not now :)) > > They usually contain links to programs from the xorg-x11-bin package. Ummm ... that would mean that I don't have those installed? But I checked and I do have indeed. (xorg-x11-bin* , all of them) Strange....but well for now, I can live with this. Thank you very much for your reply. -Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Mit der Gruppen-SMS von WEB.DE FreeMail können Sie eine SMS an alle Freunde gleichzeitig schicken: http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021179
