Windows programs in Cygwin/X ?
Reid Thompson
reid.thompson@ateb.com
Tue Feb 28 12:47:00 GMT 2006
Doug Bohl wrote:
> After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers
> running in Cygwin/X. What I'm wondering is this: Is it at all
> possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X
> window manager? Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running
> some X programs, I'd have to alt+tab out of X and into explorer.
>
> If this isn't possible, what would I have to do to make it possible?
> Maybe write an X program to 'trap' the window of a Windows program
> into an invisible X window. Or something like that.
>
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there a various ways to run the X server in cygwin.
Read the comments in and then try altering /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
to meet your needs. For example....
---snip---
XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error &
# Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &
rxvt -e /usr/bin/bash -l &
#
# Startup the twm window manager.
# WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with
# the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin. Doing so
# would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen.
#
# twm &
wmaker &
-----snip----
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