John Ormerod wrote:
Hello
I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I
need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a
did you comment out this line from your .bat file?
If you did, uncomment it.
run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l
...snip
REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window
manager.
REM WARNING: Do not use 'xwinclip' in conjunction with the
``-clipboard''
REM command-line parameter for XWin. Doing so would start two clipboard
REM managers, which is never supposed to happen.
run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l
..snip
I believe the context menu you are referring to is controlled by a
.XWinrc file in your home directory
$ cat .XWinrc
# XWin Server Resource File - EXAMPLE
# Earle F. Philhower, III
# Place in ~/.XWinrc or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc
# Keywords are case insensitive, comments legal pretty much anywhere
# you can have an end-of-line
# Comments begin with # or // and go to the end-of-line
# Paths to commands are **cygwin** based (i.e. /usr/local/bin/xcalc)
# Paths to icons are **WINDOWS** based (i.e. c:\windows\icons)
# Menus are defined as...
# MENU name {
# Menu Text EXECcommand
# ^^ This command will have any
%display%
# string replaced with the proper
display
# variable (i.e. 127.0.0.1:display.0)
# or Menu Text MENUname-of-some-prior-defined-menu
# or Menu Text ALWAYSONTOP
# ^^ Sets the window to display above all others
# or Menu Text RELOAD
# ^^ Causes ~/.XWinrc or the system.XWinrc file
#to be reloaded and icons and menus
regenerated
# or SEPARATOR
# ...
# }
# Set the taskmar menu with
# ROOTMENU name-of-some-prior-defined-menu
# If you want a menu to be applied to all popup window's system menu
# DEFAULTSYSMENU name-of-some-prior-defined-menu atstart|atend
# To choose a specific menu for a specific WM_CLASS or WM_NAME use ...
# SYSMENU {
# class-or-name-of-window name-of-prior-defined-menu
atstart|atend
# ...
# }
# To define where ICO files live (** Windows path**)
# ICONDIRECTORY windows-path i.e. c:\cygwin\usr\icons
# To define a replacement for the standard X icon for apps w/o specified
icons
# DEFAULTICON name-of-windows-ico-file-in-icondirectory
# To define substitute icons on a per-window basis use...
# ICONS {
# class-or-name-of-window icon-file-name.ico
# ...
# }
# In the case where multiple matches occur, the first listed in the
ICONS
# section will be chosen.
# DEBUG string prints out the string to the XWin.log file
// Below are just some silly menus to demonstrate writing your
// own configuration file.
// Make some menus...
menu apps {
rxvt-green_on_blackexecrxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x40+200+100 -fg green -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
rxvt-yellow_on_blackexecrxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x
40+200+100 -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
Emacs execemacs
xterm execxterm
notepad execnotepad
}
menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
Reload .XWinrcRELOAD
Applications menuapps
SEParATOR
}
menu aot {
Separator
Always on Top alwaysontop
}
menu xtermspecial {
Emacs execemacs
Always on Top alwaysontop
SepArAtor
}
RootMenu root
DefaultSysMenu aot atend
SysMenu {
xterm xtermspecial atstart
}
# IconDirectory c:\winnt\
# DefaultIcon reinstall.ico
# Icons {
# xterm uninstall.ico
# }
DEBUG Done parsing the configuration file...
reid
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