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Re: WindowMaker and XFree86
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From: <vdibartolo@smallworld.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:59 AM
Subject: WindowMaker and XFree86
> All,
>
> I recently compiled WindowMaker 0.64.0 on my Windows NT 4.0 SP5 box using CygWin 1.3.1 and XFree86 4.03.
> I'm wondering if anyone has a similar setup as I have and is experiencing a couple of annoying glitches and some inoperability.
> To save time, here's a short list of things:
>
> 1. First and foremost, gcc crashed my Win98 machine when I tried to compile the libPropList required for WindowMaker, which is why I'm only using it on Winnt
libPropList compiles OOTB, as Suhaib said.
> 2. WindowMaker doesn't consistently load the first time I run startxwin.bat
> 3. When WindowMaker does come up, I get the following message: "wmsetbg warning: could not open domain file /home/administrator/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker".
> 4. Any changes I make to my are saved to /home/adminstrator/GNUstep/Defaults/WMstate when I save them, but are not loaded when I restart WindowMaker for another session later
For 2, 3, and 4
Modify your startxwin.bat
I'm using this command, and have no problem like that.
start bash -c "/usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/bash -c ""/usr/bin/bash -c 'wmaker' &""&"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> startxwin.bat (REM'd lines removed):
>
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>
> start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine 4
> start wmaker&
> @echo on
>