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Re: How do I start WM?
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> From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: joseph_ess@yahoo.com
> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 11:19:40 AM
> Subject: Re: How do I start WM?
>
> On 23/02/2010 15:11, Joseph Ess wrote:
> >> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 9:36:55 AM
> >> Subject: Re: How do I start WM?
> >>
> >> On 23/02/2010 14:11, Joseph Ess wrote:
> >>> How do I start XWindows in full screen mode with OpenBox window manager? It
> >>> used to be that I'd just put the command for the window manager at the end
> >>> of startxwin.bat. Now that file's gone away. I can't use startxwin.exe as
> >>> it is multi-window only. I can run XWin.exe, but the only command line or
> >>> .XWinrc options I can find for that program are for Windows-specific
> >>> functions(i.e. system tray icon).
> >>
> >> Read the documentation.
> >>
> >> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-startx
> >
> > I've read the documentation. The page you refer to mentions startxwin and
> startx.
> > As I mentioned before, startxwin is for multi-window only.
> > startx apparently requires a Cygwin shell. I'm trying to start Cygwin/XWindows
> in full screen mode.
> > Is there something I missed?
>
> From your response, it sounds like you haven't actually tried using startx.
And you'd be wrong.
> Perhaps you should follow my suggestion and try it.
I double-clicked on c:\cygwin\bin\startx. It opens a
dialog titled "Open With" that instructs one to "Choose the program you
want to use to open this file".
> Then please explain how it differs from what you want to achieve.
It doesn't start XWindows like startxwin.bat used to.
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