> Well, I've certainly done something wrong, but since there is not yet a
> proper installation instruction, I simply start cygwin, then type xinit
> into that terminal and voila, I get X without a window manager (of
> course). I've installed OpenBox. That seemed to hang. Now I tried Fvwm.
> That worked better, although (surprisingly) I don't get
> mini/maximize/close buttons. But otherwise hyperdoc came up and also
> efricas started fricas inside emacs.

Please launch X server from start menu - it's under "Cygwin/X => XWin
Server" entry.

There's absolutely no need for a window manager. Please don't run any.
AFAIU by default X server uses Windows API to manage windows.

> Anyway, the starting procedure is too complicated, nobody will bother to
> start FriCAS this way. I cannot help with Windows any further. I believe
> a better way to start FriCAS on Windows is to provide a virtual machine
> image. OK, our poor Windows users won't be happy with that either.

It didn't take me more than 3 steps to run FriCAS on a Windows machine
without Cygwin installed. Don't panic - just make sure you run X
server in multi-window mode.

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Kind regards
Krystian Bacławski

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