How do I start WM?
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Feb 23 19:57:00 GMT 2010
On 23/02/2010 16:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Jon TURNEY
>>> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
>>> From: Jon TURNEY<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
>>
>> 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 my reading of the documentation, it sounds like you'd get this behavior by
> adding server options to startxwin:
>
> startxwin -- [ server options ]
This isn't actually the case, as startxwin always supplies the '-multiwindow'
option to XWin, and there is no XWin option to specify the default (windowed)
mode you can add after it.
This is almost by design. There are a few differences between startx and
startxwin, appropriate to running in windowed or multiwindow mode, and mixing
them up would be a bad idea.
* They use different scripts to start clients (~/.startxwinrc and ~/.xinitrc).
This is because we expect the .xinitrc to end by starting a WM, which would
a bad idea for .startxwinrc (as it would discover the internal WM is already
running (hopefully)) and exit immediately.
* startxwin exits after ~/.startxwinrc has completed and leaves XWin running,
whereas startx waits until ~/.xinitrc exits (which is usually waiting for the
WM started by it to exit) and then kills XWin.
--
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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