Re: KDE for CygWin?

["Pat Lightbody" <plightbo at cisco dot com>]

Charles,
Cygwin already provides several pre-built WMs in the setup.exe utility (not
Gnome or KDE, but they do exist). I use Openbox. Basically, just download
and install a new WM using setup.exe (or whatever else if you want Gnome or
KDE) and then modify /usr/X11R6/bin/startx.bat and comment out the twm line
and replace it with another WM. Fin!

-Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles E. Cooper" <cec112@psu.edu>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:33 PM
Subject: KDE for CygWin?


> I have been using Cygwin to connect from a PC, Windows 2000 to a Solaris
> machine where our target system is run.
>
> The TWM window manager doesn't have all the featues I'd like, so I was
> curious if there's another window manager.
> I saw a reference to KDE, but when I installed it, it installed as a
> separate task on the PC, not to change the default window manager for the
> Cygwin.
>
> Is there a way to change window managers, and how?
> I'm a Unix level user, not a heavy programmer type.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Chuck
>
> Charles E. Cooper
> Applied Research Laboratory
> The Pennsylvania State University
> (814) 865-6829 (Swift Office)
> (814) 865-2020
> ccooper@psu.edu