How do I start WM?

[Jon TURNEY]

On 23/02/2010 15:11, Joseph Ess wrote:
>> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 9:36:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: How do I start WM?
>>
>> On 23/02/2010 14:11, Joseph Ess wrote:
>>> How do I start XWindows in full screen mode with OpenBox window manager? It
>>> used to be that I'd just put the command for the window manager at the end
>>> of startxwin.bat.  Now that file's gone away. I can't use startxwin.exe as
>>> it is multi-window only.  I can run XWin.exe, but the only command line or
>>> .XWinrc options I can find for that program are for Windows-specific
>>> functions(i.e. system tray icon).
>>
>> Read the documentation.
>>
>> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-startx
>
> I've read the documentation.  The page you refer to mentions startxwin and startx.
> As I mentioned before, startxwin is for multi-window only.
> startx apparently requires a Cygwin shell. I'm trying to start Cygwin/XWindows in full screen mode.
> Is there something I missed?

 From your response, it sounds like you haven't actually tried using startx.

Perhaps you should follow my suggestion and try it.

Then please explain how it differs from what you want to achieve.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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