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From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Advice on getting window manager, file manager and simple text editor to work Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:42:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <52EDB07A.3070008@users.sourceforge.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <ECD9CD6C7B163F4882AB10BC135BF5881E7F1C60@DE08EX3006.global.ds.honeywell.com> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL ! On 2014-01-31 16:41, Sinkler, Wharton wrote: > I'm trying to recreate the look and feel of a standard Unix X Windows system > on my PC using Cygwin (something resembling the old CDE, or Redhat in functionality). > > I've got Cygwin with X11 and openbox running, but a few problems stubbornly > unresolved: > > Openbox doesn't have a dock so if you minimize a window it's just gone. Openbox is only a window manager, so that is to be expected. > There are suggestions to solve this problem with a toolbar application called > tint2, however the latter doesn't build successfully on my Cygwin installation > (Errors in cmake about compilers not working when in fact they are working just > fine). As far as standalone panels go, tint2 is available in Ports (built OOTB), as is fbpanel (my personal favourite). > Another major item is some kind of file manager to run inside the Openbox root > window. Although I've installed the KDE and Gnome items available through cygwin > setup-x86_64.exe, none of the file managers such as Nautilus, Thunar, KDE file > manager etc. appear to be part of those installations. dolphin, gentoo (the file manager, not the Linux distro), gnome-commander, mate-file-manager (aka Caja), nautilus, pcmanfm, Thunar, and xfe are all available in Ports. > I tried downloading a version of rox (rox-2.1.2-cygwin.tar.bz2) but installation > failed (gcc apparently detects multiple incompatible declarations in part of the > code). Like most X11 desktops, a fairly complete ROX environment is also available in Ports. > Finally, I'd like a simple editor. Have installed nedit, but get 'UTF8 locale not > supported' followed by Segmentation fault when I execute it. The message is harmless but otherwise it WFM. Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-02 2:42 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-01-31 22:42 Sinkler, Wharton 2014-02-02 2:42 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [this message]
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