RE: WindowMaker and XFree86

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Vinny,

Well, I can see one thing in your startxwin.bat file that worries me:

> start wmaker&

I'm not sure what DOS is going to do with that '&' character... remember,
running a batch file is not UNIX... it's DOS.  Removing the & may cause WM
to start reliably, but it probably won't fix any of your other problems.

Harold

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
vdibartolo@smallworld.com
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:00 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: WindowMaker and XFree86


All,

	I recently compiled WindowMaker 0.64.0 on my Windows NT 4.0 SP5 box using
CygWin 1.3.1 and XFree86 4.03.  I'm wondering if anyone has a similar setup
as I have and is experiencing a couple of annoying glitches and some
inoperability.  To save time, here's a short list of things:

	1.  First and foremost, gcc crashed my Win98 machine when I tried to
compile the libPropList required for WindowMaker, which is why I'm only
using it on Winnt
	2.  WindowMaker doesn't consistently load the first time I run
startxwin.bat.  I usually have to execute startxwin.bat 2 times for it to
"stick" (i.e. load).  See the bottom of the email for the relevant lines in
my startxwin.bat file.
	3.  When WindowMaker does come up, I get the following message: "wmsetbg
warning: could not open domain file
/home/administrator/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker".  This file exists and is
readable (with proper case on each path element).
	4.  Any changes I make to my environment (e.g. adding workspaces, renaming
them, adding docked icons) are saved to
/home/adminstrator/GNUstep/Defaults/WMstate when I save them, but are not
loaded when I restart WindowMaker for another session later.  This and the
above point (#3) seem to indicate that WindowMaker is having problems
resolving the path to "/home" being that the filesystem is Windows and the
path is more like "E:\cygwin\home".  Sound likely?
	5.  Small but annoying - the "xterm" item on the WindowMaker right-click
menu launches an xterm just file but I cannot rid myself of the xterm in any
way other than killing it.  This behavior is not shared by the rxvt term.
If I dock an icon that launches xterm or otherwise open an xterm this
problem goes away.

	Any help on any of these would be appreciated.  I am assuming that these
errors are particular to WindowMaker in CygWin otherwise I would have posted
to a WindowMaker-specific list.  Thanks again.

	-Vinny

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startxwin.bat (REM'd lines removed):

@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;\cygwin\usr\local\bin

start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine 4
start wmaker&
@echo on