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From: Olwe Melwasul <hercynianforest@gmail.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Resizing problem Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:02:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <AANLkTillMOXVlq0iPMNJdnwR6l2qNt8rOA6rsGVr61Jr@mail.gmail.com> (raw) I installed cygwin/xcygwin 1.7.5 with KDE. I tried clicking on XWin Server from the Start menue, but nothing happened. I tried startx from the cygwin basic terminal. Nothing. After some Google archaeology, I found someone that had done this: cd \cygwin\bin ash PATH=. rebaseall -v at the DOS command. Good. It worked. Running startx at the cygwin command did start a twm session. But how the KDE would run, I couldn't figure out from any amount of documentation or Googling. After some more Googling, I saw a reference to an Openbox. Guessing along, I got startx /usr/bin/openbox to give me Openbox. My problem is that I cannot minimize anything because it goes down below and out of sight. The XWin container window is sized on start up to my right computer screen, but when I drag it over to my larger left screen, it can't be resized. I suspect Openbox has a default size larger (lower?) and down in the hidden part is no doubt either a task bar with the minimized apps or the minimized apps themselves, right? Alt-Tab only cycles the Win7 apps, not the XWin session apps, BTW. Actually, I don't need the startx version, I could very well use the startxwin multi-windows version IF I could get Emacs in shell mode to do cygwin bash. Starting the X server and then Emacs multi-windows style gets a shell mode that apparently doesn't see cygwin. I'm guessing it's using the DOS command. How can I a) get at the minimized apps? or b) how can I get a stand-alone X server-run Emacs to see cygwin bash? Olwe Bottorff Grand Marais, MN -- 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/
next reply other threads:[~2010-07-15 17:02 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2010-07-15 17:02 Olwe Melwasul [this message] 2010-07-15 18:12 ` Ken Brown 2010-07-15 19:51 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-15 21:20 ` Ken Brown 2010-07-16 1:27 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-16 2:04 ` Ken Brown 2010-07-16 2:20 ` Ken Brown 2010-07-16 4:10 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-16 8:52 ` Csaba Raduly 2010-07-16 12:24 ` Ken Brown 2010-07-16 13:50 ` Jon TURNEY 2010-07-16 14:39 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-16 15:40 ` Andy Koppe 2010-07-16 16:00 ` Christopher Faylor 2010-07-16 20:03 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-16 21:19 ` Christopher Faylor 2010-07-16 21:40 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-16 22:08 ` DePriest, Jason R. 2010-07-16 22:23 ` Olwe Melwasul 2010-07-16 22:46 ` Christopher Faylor 2010-07-16 22:34 ` Timares, Brian (EDS/HP) 2010-07-16 22:56 ` Christopher Faylor 2010-07-16 15:55 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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