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RE: default start procedure for cygwin xfree apps/desktops available ?
- To: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>, "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: default start procedure for cygwin xfree apps/desktops available ?
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:36:53 -0400
Ralf,
It doesn't matter to me. As I have mentioned, I am a horrible X user, so I
don't even know what the correct method of starting a window manager would
be.
As always, just send in the new scripts and I'll commit them if they work.
Otherwise, we're just talking :)
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ralf Habacker
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:34 AM
> To: Cygwin-Xfree
> Subject: RE: default start procedure for cygwin xfree apps/desktops
> available ?
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]Im Auftrag von Suhaib
> > Siddiqi
> > Gesendet am: Freitag, 10. August 2001 12:55
> > An: 'Cygwin-Xfree'
> > Betreff: RE: default start procedure for cygwin xfree apps/desktops
> > available ?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de]
> > > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 4:09 AM
> > > To: Cygwin-Xfree
> > > Subject: default start procedure for cygwin xfree
> > > apps/desktops available ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > for kde I'm using a specific $HOME/.xinitrc and
> > > $HOME/.xserverrc to start the desktop. The .xinitrc file
> > > comes from a suse linux system, the .xserverrc file I have
> > > created for my own, caused by the my demands.
> > >
> > > For the next kde beta, I'm looking for a standard way to
> > > handle such things, which don't clashes with other x11
> > > desktops on cygwin.
> > >
> > > For this I have two questions:
> > >
> > > 1. Is there any standard way in cygwin to handle this ?
> > > 2. Has anyone some suggestions about this topic ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > What about name the .foo and source them at startup
> >
> I think I have to describe more in detail the needs I see.
>
> In linux for example the prefered way to start an X11
> windowmanager (and the
> relating desktop) is setting the environment var WINDOWMANAGER to
> the relating
> start script and call startx to start the wm.
>
> In cygwin the default way seems to use startxwin.bat, but as I
> have seen last
> this isn't compatible with the startx procedure.
>
> Additional on watching the cygwin-xfree mailing list I see that
> more and more wms are available for cygwin/xfree86, so a standard for this
> especially in conjunction with the coming rpm installer, seems to me as a
> necessary condition.
>
> A proposal from my side is to use an existing standard like the startx
> with a standard .xinitrc and to choose the wm with the env var
> WINDOWMANAGER.
>
> This can be used bx startxwin too, perhaps as commandline
> parameter or with the
> WINDOWMANAGER var too.
>
> What do you think about this ?
>
> Ralf
>
>