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Re: using WindowMaker instead of twm
- From: "Yadin Y Goldschmidt" <yadin at pitt dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:35:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: using WindowMaker instead of twm
- References: <20030130215351.39944.qmail@web40506.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Be sure that your $HOME variable is not set to the default windows location,
but set it to e.g. c:\cygwin\home\yourname. wmaker has a problem with
c:\Documents and Settings\....
"Quan Ding" <qd421@yahoo.com> wrote in message
20030130215351.39944.qmail@web40506.mail.yahoo.com">news:20030130215351.39944.qmail@web40506.mail.yahoo.com...
> I just downloaded and installed Cygwin. The default
> window manager : twm doesn't provide many
> functionality and it's hard to use. I don't even know
> how to change the windows size. (i'm a newbie). I
> found that there is wmaker.exe in X11R6/bin. So I
> replaced that with "twm &" in the startxwin.sh file.
> But when I tried to run it. WindowMaker couldn't
> start, crashed all the time.
>
> So how do I use windowmaker instead of twm? (or does
> cygwin come with any other better window manager?)
>
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