I installed cygwin/xcygwin 1.7.5 with KDE. I tried clicking on XWin Server from the Start menue, but nothing happened. I tried startx from the cygwin basic terminal. Nothing. After some Google archaeology, I found someone that had done this:
cd \cygwin\bin ash PATH=. rebaseall -v at the DOS command. Good. It worked. Running startx at the cygwin command did start a twm session. But how the KDE would run, I couldn't figure out from any amount of documentation or Googling. After some more Googling, I saw a reference to an Openbox. Guessing along, I got startx /usr/bin/openbox to give me Openbox. My problem is that I cannot minimize anything because it goes down below and out of sight. The XWin container window is sized on start up to my right computer screen, but when I drag it over to my larger left screen, it can't be resized. I suspect Openbox has a default size larger (lower?) and down in the hidden part is no doubt either a task bar with the minimized apps or the minimized apps themselves, right? Alt-Tab only cycles the Win7 apps, not the XWin session apps, BTW. Actually, I don't need the startx version, I could very well use the startxwin multi-windows version IF I could get Emacs in shell mode to do cygwin bash. Starting the X server and then Emacs multi-windows style gets a shell mode that apparently doesn't see cygwin. I'm guessing it's using the DOS command. How can I a) get at the minimized apps? or b) how can I get a stand-alone X server-run Emacs to see cygwin bash? Olwe Bottorff Grand Marais, MN -- 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/
