How do you gentleuser's start your X stuff?
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Oct 2 11:12:00 GMT 2002
Frank,
There is information in the Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide that describes
your different options for starting Cygwin/XFree86:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
Window resizing and scrollbars are both controlled by the X ``window
manager''. You are looking for something that we are all always looking
for, the unobtainable ``better window manager''. However, there are
several other options for a window manager that you can try out without
much work. Just rerun Cygwin's setup.exe and look under the XFree86
category --- there are a few window managers listed there (MWM is in the
Lesstif package, openbox, window-maker, etc.). You can edit
startxwin.bat (which is, by the way, the recommended way to start
Cygwin/XFree86) and replace the line that starts ``twm'' with one of the
others that you have installed, e.g., ``mwm''. Each window manager has
its own quirks and bugs (some of them don't work correctly when the
NumLock key is on, etc.). Choosing a window manager is a highly
personal thing so that is about all the help that I can give you. I am
sure that others will chime in with links to their favorite WMs now. :)
Harold
Lane, Frank L wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I'm managing to take a couple of steps a day. One thing I stumbled across
> the other day is the startx command. I use this to work. I've noticed that
> my windows are not resizable and do not have scrollbars. Is there a better
> way to kickoff X?
>
> Second question, as I'm interested in learning everything I can about X, I'm
> trying to write some beginner programs. When I compile using gcc I get a
> message about unresolved calls to _XSimpleWindow and some other functions.
> I've tried including -L/usr/X11R6/bin/libX11.dll but that doesn't help. Any
> suggestions? Is there anyway I can see if the function xsimplewindow is in
> the libX11.dll or what files exist in what dll's?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
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