Using XFree to replace explorer.exe as the window manager for Windows

[David Fraser]

Stuart Adamson wrote:

>Yep - I've done this.
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>However - some of the control panel stuff didn't work correctly afterwards
>(like the program installation wizard).  I had to move back to explorer.exe,
>install my program then move back to using X as the shell.
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>Stuart
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de]
>>Sent: 20 January 2003 07:19
>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Subject: RE: Using XFree to replace explorer.exe as the window manager
>>for Windows
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>>>  I am wondering if anyone has attempted to use 
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>>Cygwin/XFree86 to replace
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>>>explorer.exe as the window manager.
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>>David Fraser has reported done so with kde-cygwin. See
>>http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=103072530327420&w=2 for 
>>further infos.
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>>Regards
>>Ralf
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Which just shows why its bad to have a monolithic OS instead of one made 
up of separate components
That's Windows for you...
David