Re: How do I start WM?

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail dot com>]

Hi;

  Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window
Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm
(? the task/time manager).

  I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and
openbox, but I'll look on openbox.org and find more details.

  The Windoze start shortcut did help, and the ~/.xinitrc did help -- thank you.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:35, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:44, Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com> wrote:
>> Try this:
>> Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail.
>> set the Target to be:
>> ?C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx --
>> /usr/bin/Xwin.exe"
>> Note the double quotes around the last argument. ?Without them, Xwin.exe
>> doesn't start on my box. ?startx also would not invoke Xwin.exe on my box
>> unless I explicitly called it ala above
>> Commmand line invocation-> $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xwin.exe
>> perhaps it's not reading the symlink properly (the default server is set as
>> /usr/bin/X, which is symlinked to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe) -- nope, explicitly
>> setting default server to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe doesn't start it either via a
>> plain startx on the command line. ?setting startx to echo the eval of the
>> invocation yields
>>
>> ? xinit "/home/rthompso/.xinitrc" ?-- "/home/rthompso/.xserverrc" :0 ?-auth
>> '/home/rthompso/.serverauth.5912'
>> aha -- my .xserverrc has:
>> ?#exec X -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 -ac -nowinkill -noreset
>> -emulate3buttons 100
>> uncomment it and try again from command line a plain startx... xserver
>> starts up in it's own window with my .xinitrc programs running.
>> shut it down, and try my copy of the shortcut again, starts again.
>>
>> Now that we've established that mine wasn't starting due to the invalid
>> .xserverrc, reset the shortcut target to
>> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx
>> and try it -> starts again
>
> ?I changed my shortcut to what you have here (except I have
> c:\cygwin_1.7) and I copied and pasted what you have below into my new
> ~/.xinitrc and it works **GREAT** :-) ?Thanks!
>
>> Pasted below is my .xinitrc (you said you don't have one in $HOME), you can
>> try this one in your $HOME if you want. ?It will open a couple of rxvt terms
>> and and xterm. ?It is configured to startup the openbox window manager. ?You
>> MAY prefer to copy the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your $HOME/.xinitrc to use
>> as your base.
>>
>> cat .xinitrc
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $
>>
>> userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
>> usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
>> sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
>> sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
>>
>> # merge in defaults and keymaps
>>
>> if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
>> ? ?xrdb -merge $sysresources
>> fi
>>
>> if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
>> ? ?xmodmap $sysmodmap
>> fi
>>
>> if [ -f $userresources ]; then
>> ? ?xrdb -merge $userresources
>> fi
>>
>> if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
>> ? ?xmodmap $usermodmap
>> fi
>>
>>
>> /usr/bin/openbox ?&
>> #twm &
>> #wmaker &
>> #/opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session &
>>
>> # start some nice programs
>> rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x35+494+51 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg
>> darkolivegreen &
>> rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x20+294-0 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg
>> darkolivegreen &
>> exec xterm -geometry 80x6+0+0 -name login
>>
>>
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