RE: Window Manager for X of Cygwin-Xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anjani Prasad Achanta [mailto:anjani@cfl.rr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:27 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Window Manager for X of Cygwin-Xfree
> 
> Hi
> 	I am new to cygwin. I installed the latest set of binaries of
> cygwin-xfree following the Cygwin User Guide. The guide was really
> helpful. I am able to start the X server by running startxwin shell
> script. (Of course not through the batch file - it failed for this).
> But
> an error came up while X is brought up saying vtwm not found. I have
> not
> changed any configuration files. I searched for a window manager and
> found none in the bin directory.
> 	Where can I get the window manager (vtwm or twm) binaries (and
> related libraries) for cygwin-xfree? When I searched in the net the
> tar
> file "*vtwm*.tar.gz" file is found in 4.0.3 version of cygwin-xfree
> but
> the same is not available with 4.1.0 version.
> 	What shall I do now? Where and which window manager should I
> use?

Please; Read the mail archives.  Read the README file which is in
startup-script directory.  You will know the solution.  That is all you can
do.  This question had been answered many times that for the people who do
not intend to READ the README files and search mail archives before asking
questions.

Suhaib 

> 
> Thanks in advance
> Anjani Prasad
>