Hi Holger; > In your first mail you said you wanted to start openbox as a window manager, > now you talk about kde. That are two different things. > > What happens if you start openbox in a bash shell without starting a > X-Server first?
If I don't set the DISPLAY environment variable then it complains about it not being set. If I do set the DISPLAY environment variable then it complains about not being able to use it. Apparently I'm missing some components... $ openbox-session which: no hsetroot in [PATH content deleted] which: no esetroot in [PATH content deleted] xsetroot: unable to open display 'KWOLCOTT-T61:0.0' which: no gnome-settings-daemon in [PATH content deleted] which: no xfce-mcs-manager in [PATH content deleted] which: no start_kdeinit in [PATH content deleted] Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable. Normally I use the Xming X Window manager if I'm not running the twm Window Manager executed from Cygwin. Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/