From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16924 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2014 02:42:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16909 invoked by uid 89); 2 Feb 2014 02:42:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f169.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f169.google.com) (209.85.213.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:42:04 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f169.google.com with SMTP id uq10so3658244igb.0 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:42:03 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.42.227.195 with SMTP id jb3mr21455985icb.27.1391308923123; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:42:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.212.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f2sm14663018igt.6.2014.02.01.18.42.01 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:42:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52EDB07A.3070008@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:42:00 -0000 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Advice on getting window manager, file manager and simple text editor to work References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 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/