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RE: Using XFree to replace explorer.exe as the window manager for Windows
- From: Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:13:11 -0000
- Subject: RE: Using XFree to replace explorer.exe as the window manager for Windows
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Yep - I've done this.
However - some of the control panel stuff didn't work correctly afterwards
(like the program installation wizard). I had to move back to explorer.exe,
install my program then move back to using X as the shell.
Stuart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de]
> Sent: 20 January 2003 07:19
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Using XFree to replace explorer.exe as the window manager
> for Windows
>
>
> >
> > I am wondering if anyone has attempted to use
> Cygwin/XFree86 to replace
> > explorer.exe as the window manager.
> >
> David Fraser has reported done so with kde-cygwin. See
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=103072530327420&w=2 for
> further infos.
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>