Re: How do I start WM?

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 23/02/2010 16:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On 23/02/2010 14:11, Joseph Ess wrote:
> > > > How do I start XWindows in full screen mode with OpenBox window manager? It
> > > > used to be that I'd just put the command for the window manager at the end
> > > > of startxwin.bat.  Now that file's gone away. I can't use startxwin.exe as
> > > > it is multi-window only.  I can run XWin.exe, but the only command line or
> > > > .XWinrc options I can find for that program are for Windows-specific
> > > > functions(i.e. system tray icon).
> > >
> > > Read the documentation.
> > >
> > > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-startx
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Jon TURNEY
> > > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
> > > From: Jon TURNEY<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
> >
> > I've read the documentation.  The page you refer to mentions startxwin and startx.
> > As I mentioned before, startxwin is for multi-window only.
> > startx apparently requires a Cygwin shell. I'm trying to start Cygwin/XWindows in full screen mode.
> > Is there something I missed?
>
>  From my reading of the documentation, it sounds like you'd get this behavior by
> adding server options to startxwin:
>
>    startxwin -- [ server options ]

This isn't actually the case, as startxwin always supplies the '-multiwindow' 
option to XWin, and there is no XWin option to specify the default (windowed) 
mode you can add after it.

This is almost by design.  There are a few differences between startx and 
startxwin, appropriate to running in windowed or multiwindow mode, and mixing 
them up would be a bad idea.

* They use different scripts to start clients (~/.startxwinrc and ~/.xinitrc). 
 This is because we expect the .xinitrc to end by starting a WM, which would 
a bad idea for .startxwinrc (as it would discover the internal WM is already 
running (hopefully)) and exit immediately.

* startxwin exits after ~/.startxwinrc has completed and leaves XWin running, 
whereas startx waits until ~/.xinitrc exits (which is usually waiting for the 
WM started by it to exit) and then kills XWin.

--
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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