Re: an x environment

Re: an x environment

[Jerome Gay]

Steve-

After reading your messages, I tried to setup fvwm2 under gnu-win32, it
compiled without any major problems, I also compiled and installed pixmap...
fvwm2 works fine except I get the message (at the beginning) :
[FVWM][executeModule]: <<ERROR>> No such module 'PixmapPath' in ModulePath
'/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fvwm2'
and I don't get these nice buttons on the fvwm2 buttonbar...

I found out that the pixmap distribution does not include any .pm files....
Where can I get some pm files to be used for buttons ?
Where can I get some nice fvwm2rc examples ?

Jerome "ZoSo"


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve o <bub@io.com>
To: Michael Anderson <mka@redes.int.com.mx>
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 06, 1997 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: an x environment



>Michael Anderson wrote:
>>
>> Steve o wrote:
>> >
>> > fvwm2 ported without a hitch.
>>
>> Hi Steve:
>>
>> I've been using bash windows and vi for my work and wondering just how I
>> might get X and fvwm working. Can you tell me the steps needed to do
>> this? Which X server are you using and what other software needs to be
>> installed? Config files? If you posted the process to the newsgroup, it
>> might help out others wondering how to do this.
>
>I am using Hummingbird's Exceed X Server,
>    http://www.hummingbird.com/products/exceed/
>I set the environment variable DISPLAY=:0
>
>I installed the "X client libs for NT" from
>    http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/
>
>Fvwm needs xpm so I got that from:
>    ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
>
>Fvwm can be obtained from:
>    http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/
>
>The steps to install are:
> tar -xvzf package.tar.gz
> cd package
> xmkmf -a
> make
> make install
>
>Sometimes the install target in the Makefile will have:
>   cp foo /usr/local/bin/foo
>These need to be changed to:
>   cp foo.exe /usr/local/bin/foo.exe
>
>There are some sample .fvwm2rc files included in the distribution,
>copy one of these to your home directory.
>
>If you run fvwm, you'll want to set the Exceed
>    Xconfig->Window Mode->window manager to X.
>
>You'll need Sergey's coolview and remote.tar.gz.
>-steve
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Re: an x environment

[Steve o]

Michael Anderson wrote:
> 
> Steve o wrote:
> >
> > fvwm2 ported without a hitch.
> 
> Hi Steve:
> 
> I've been using bash windows and vi for my work and wondering just how I
> might get X and fvwm working. Can you tell me the steps needed to do
> this? Which X server are you using and what other software needs to be
> installed? Config files? If you posted the process to the newsgroup, it
> might help out others wondering how to do this.

I am using Hummingbird's Exceed X Server, 
    http://www.hummingbird.com/products/exceed/
I set the environment variable DISPLAY=:0

I installed the "X client libs for NT" from 
    http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/

Fvwm needs xpm so I got that from: 
    ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz

Fvwm can be obtained from: 
    http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/

The steps to install are:
	tar -xvzf package.tar.gz
	cd package
	xmkmf -a
	make
	make install

Sometimes the install target in the Makefile will have: 
   cp foo /usr/local/bin/foo
These need to be changed to: 
   cp foo.exe /usr/local/bin/foo.exe

There are some sample .fvwm2rc files included in the distribution, 
copy one of these to your home directory. 

If you run fvwm, you'll want to set the Exceed 
    Xconfig->Window Mode->window manager to X.

You'll need Sergey's coolview and remote.tar.gz.
-steve
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an x environment

[Steve o]

Hi,
Having recently been transplanted from an X environment to 
winnt, I am homesick and wish to recreate my old desktop.

My plan was enabled when Sergey ported rxvt, well, not just
ported but added a much needed /dev/tty interface.  wow.

fvwm2 ported without a hitch.

xemacs was quite a different story.  I managed to get 
temacs.exe to compile, but only after I hacked out what seemed
like a very useless, and very system dependent code, called 
unexec.c.  Turns out, to my surprise, temacs reads itself 
and dumps out an executable copy, all via unexec.  hmm.

I poked around, looked at what emacs-19.34 did, tried a
couple things, but really, I was out of my leaque.  Are .exe
files in COFF format, or elf?   What happens in crt0.o that
has to be accounted for?  Can I mix the Win32'isms in unexnt.c
with the un-adulterated xemacs code?  Maybe I could lift
some .exe generating code from ld?

So for now I've given up, but maybe by posting this,
some guru will become intrigued and, while waiting for
a compile, will patch unexec.c and casually mention 
it in an email to this list.

As a side note, I used "configure i386-cygwin-linux" to 
get configure to work.  This got me thinking that since the 
cygwin API is apporaching that of Linux, it may be possible 
to write a loader that could execute native linux binaries 
under cygwin, a la the WINE project only reversed. 

Imagine, the whole Red-hat distribution ported to cygwin,
and no .exe extensions...

-steve
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