RE: Is my X Servier not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)

["Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>]

John Ormerod wrote:
> Hello
> I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I
> need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a

did you comment out this line from your .bat file?
If you did, uncomment it.

run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l



.......snip
REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window
manager.
REM WARNING: Do not use 'xwinclip' in conjunction with the
``-clipboard''
REM command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so would start two clipboard
REM managers, which is never supposed to happen.

run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error


REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.

run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l


......snip


I believe the context menu you are referring to is controlled by a
.XWinrc file in your home directory....

$ cat .XWinrc
# XWin Server Resource File - EXAMPLE
# Earle F. Philhower, III

# Place in ~/.XWinrc or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc

# Keywords are case insensitive, comments legal pretty much anywhere
# you can have an end-of-line

# Comments begin with "#" or "//" and go to the end-of-line

# Paths to commands are **cygwin** based (i.e. /usr/local/bin/xcalc)

# Paths to icons are **WINDOWS** based (i.e. c:\windows\icons)

# Menus are defined as...
# MENU <name> {
#       <Menu Text>     EXEC    <command>
#                               ^^ This command will have any
"%display%"
#                                  string replaced with the proper
display
#                                  variable (i.e. 127.0.0.1:<display>.0)
#  or   <Menu Text>     MENU    <name-of-some-prior-defined-menu>
#  or   <Menu Text>     ALWAYSONTOP
#                         ^^ Sets the window to display above all others
#  or   <Menu Text>     RELOAD
#                         ^^ Causes ~/.XWinrc or the system.XWinrc file
#                            to be reloaded and icons and menus
regenerated
#  or   SEPARATOR
#       ...
# }

# Set the taskmar menu with
# ROOTMENU <name-of-some-prior-defined-menu>

# If you want a menu to be applied to all popup window's system menu
# DEFAULTSYSMENU <name-of-some-prior-defined-menu> <atstart|atend>

# To choose a specific menu for a specific WM_CLASS or WM_NAME use ...
# SYSMENU {
#       <class-or-name-of-window> <name-of-prior-defined-menu>
<atstart|atend>
#       ...
# }

# To define where ICO files live (** Windows path**)
# ICONDIRECTORY <windows-path i.e. c:\cygwin\usr\icons>

# To define a replacement for the standard X icon for apps w/o specified
icons
# DEFAULTICON   <name-of-windows-ico-file-in-icondirectory>

# To define substitute icons on a per-window basis use...
# ICONS {
#       <class-or-name-of-window> <icon-file-name.ico>
#       ...
# }
# In the case where multiple matches occur, the first listed in the
ICONS
# section will be chosen.

# DEBUG <string> prints out the string to the XWin.log file

// Below are just some silly menus to demonstrate writing your
// own configuration file.

// Make some menus...
menu apps {
    rxvt-green_on_black    exec    "rxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x40+200+100 -fg green -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash"
    rxvt-yellow_on_black    exec    "rxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x
40+200+100 -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash"
        "Emacs"         exec    "emacs"
        xterm   exec    "xterm"
        notepad exec    notepad
}

menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
        "Reload .XWinrc"        RELOAD
        "Applications"  menu    apps
        SEParATOR
}

menu aot {
        Separator
        "Always on Top" alwaysontop
}

menu xtermspecial {
        "Emacs"         exec    "emacs"
        "Always on Top" alwaysontop
        SepArAtor
}

RootMenu root

DefaultSysMenu aot atend

SysMenu {
        "xterm" xtermspecial atstart
}

# IconDirectory "c:\winnt\"

# DefaultIcon   "reinstall.ico"

# Icons {
#       "xterm" "uninstall.ico"
# }

DEBUG "Done parsing the configuration file..."



reid

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