Re: Windows programs in Cygwin/X ?
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:12:27AM -0500, Doug Bohl wrote: After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers running in Cygwin/X. What I'm wondering is this: Is it at all possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X window manager? Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running some X programs, I'd have to alt+tab out of X and into explorer. If this isn't possible, what would I have to do to make it possible? Maybe write an X program to 'trap' the window of a Windows program into an invisible X window. Or something like that. My approach is simply to run multiple desktops on my windows machine. I dedicate one to Cygwin/X and use the others for Windows programs. XP has a simple multi-desktop system that comes with it (I can't remember what it's called though), I use V-Com's PowerDesk myself. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. -- 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/
RE: Problem with cygfreetype-6.dll
Dick Jay wrote on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:21 AM:: I recently installed cygwin 2.510.2.2 (that's the version displayed by the setup program) including the X11 stuff. That's only the version number of the setup.exe you're using. Each package you install has its own version number which is one of the reasons http://cygwin.com/problems.html requests faults be reported with the output of cygcheck -srv attached. (Among other things this lists each installed package and its version). cygfreetype-6.dll was not found. I've searched and found that file as part of package libfreetype, but that's not one of the packages that the setup program lists. The first place to check for questions like this is http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ Entering cygfreetype-6.dll into the search box reveals the package to be libfreetype26 (current version is 2.1.9-1). This should be at all cygwin mirrors. Phil -- ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the H.E Information Systems Ltd. Tel:0161 866 9066 Web: www.heis.co.uk This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ** -- 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/
Re: Windows programs in Cygwin/X ?
Doug Bohl wrote: After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers running in Cygwin/X. What I'm wondering is this: Is it at all possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X window manager? Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running some X programs, I'd have to alt+tab out of X and into explorer. If this isn't possible, what would I have to do to make it possible? Maybe write an X program to 'trap' the window of a Windows program into an invisible X window. Or something like that. -- 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/ there a various ways to run the X server in cygwin. Read the comments in and then try altering /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh to meet your needs. For example ---snip--- XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error # Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell. xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l rxvt -e /usr/bin/bash -l # # Startup the twm window manager. # WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with # the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin. Doing so # would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen. # # twm wmaker -snip -- 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/
