Hi; Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm (? the task/time manager).
I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and openbox, but I'll look on openbox.org and find more details. The Windoze start shortcut did help, and the ~/.xinitrc did help -- thank you. Thanks, Ken Wolcott On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:35, Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi; > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:44, Reid Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Try this: >> Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail. >> set the Target to be: >> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx -- >> /usr/bin/Xwin.exe" >> Note the double quotes around the last argument. Without them, Xwin.exe >> doesn't start on my box. startx also would not invoke Xwin.exe on my box >> unless I explicitly called it ala above >> Commmand line invocation-> $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xwin.exe >> perhaps it's not reading the symlink properly (the default server is set as >> /usr/bin/X, which is symlinked to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe) -- nope, explicitly >> setting default server to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe doesn't start it either via a >> plain startx on the command line. setting startx to echo the eval of the >> invocation yields >> >> xinit "/home/rthompso/.xinitrc" -- "/home/rthompso/.xserverrc" :0 -auth >> '/home/rthompso/.serverauth.5912' >> aha -- my .xserverrc has: >> #exec X -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 -ac -nowinkill -noreset >> -emulate3buttons 100 >> uncomment it and try again from command line a plain startx... xserver >> starts up in it's own window with my .xinitrc programs running. >> shut it down, and try my copy of the shortcut again, starts again. >> >> Now that we've established that mine wasn't starting due to the invalid >> .xserverrc, reset the shortcut target to >> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx >> and try it -> starts again > > I changed my shortcut to what you have here (except I have > c:\cygwin_1.7) and I copied and pasted what you have below into my new > ~/.xinitrc and it works **GREAT** :-) Thanks! > >> Pasted below is my .xinitrc (you said you don't have one in $HOME), you can >> try this one in your $HOME if you want. It will open a couple of rxvt terms >> and and xterm. It is configured to startup the openbox window manager. You >> MAY prefer to copy the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your $HOME/.xinitrc to use >> as your base. >> >> cat .xinitrc >> #!/bin/sh >> # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $ >> >> userresources=$HOME/.Xresources >> usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap >> sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources >> sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap >> >> # merge in defaults and keymaps >> >> if [ -f $sysresources ]; then >> xrdb -merge $sysresources >> fi >> >> if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then >> xmodmap $sysmodmap >> fi >> >> if [ -f $userresources ]; then >> xrdb -merge $userresources >> fi >> >> if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then >> xmodmap $usermodmap >> fi >> >> >> /usr/bin/openbox & >> #twm & >> #wmaker & >> #/opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session & >> >> # start some nice programs >> rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x35+494+51 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg >> darkolivegreen & >> rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x20+294-0 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg >> darkolivegreen & >> exec xterm -geometry 80x6+0+0 -name login >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > -- 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/
