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Re: ice window manager works with DirectX X-Server
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: ice window manager works with DirectX X-Server
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 22:32:29 -0500
- Cc: walkup at us dot ibm dot com
- References: <OF959E5206.315B00B6-ON852569B1.0011DB5D@pok.ibm.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:28:39PM -0500, Bob Walkup wrote:
>I recently installed the xfree86 binaries for cygwin, from the tar-files on
>the net. It was possible to get up and running right away with the
>supplied startxwin.bat file. However, I really wanted a different window
>manager, and I like "ice". So I tried to build icewm from the current
>icewm source, version 1.0.4. At first the build failed due to errors in
>the source-file yapp.cc. The definition of the "timercmp" function is
>missing. After some poking around, using grep in the cygwin include
>directories, I found that there is a macro for "timercmp" in
>/usr/include/w32api/winsock.h. After cutting and pasting the three-line
>macro for "timercmp" into yapp.cc, the ice window manager compiled
>correctly. Now I am using icewm with xfree86 on cygwin - a very nice
>combination. I suspect that having more window managers to choose from
>should help increase the popularity of cygwin. Please pass the information
>along, and/or make a pre-built icewm available for cygwin users.
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cgf
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