RE: default start procedure for cygwin xfree apps/desktops available ?

["Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>]

 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Gesendet am: Sonntag, 12. August 2001 14:37
> An: Ralf Habacker; Cygwin-Xfree
> Betreff: RE: default start procedure for cygwin xfree apps/desktops
> available ?
>
> 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 :)
>
I have added a modified /us/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc which will do this.
With that you can start a whole desktop in two ways:

1. $ export WINDOWMANAGER=<path to the startup file>
   $ startx &

   Example (for kde 1.1.2):
   $ export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/local/kde1/startkde
   $ startx &

2. $ startx <path to the startup file>

   example:
   $ startx /usr/local/kde1/bin/startkde &



> 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
> >
> >
>
>

xinitrc

startkde