This is the mail archive of the cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

RE: vtwm missing from 4.0 install?


rename vtwm to twm

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Animated Dimples [mailto:lexyy@programmer.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:09 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: vtwm missing from 4.0 install?
> 
> 
> I've carefully followed the installation instructions at
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/howto/cygwin-installing.html.
> Towards the end, it suggestes starting the X server by 
> double-clicking on
> startxwin.bat, which comes out of one of the tar files making up the
> install. Suggestions are there for how to edit the line that 
> invokes XWin,
> but that's it. Here's the exact contents of the startxwin.bat 
> I downloaded:
> 
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;\usr\X11R6\bin;\cygwin\usr\bin
> start XWin -screen 0 800x600x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg 
> black -e bash
> start /B rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> start /B vtwm
> 
> Well, but, vtwm does not appear to exist, even after 
> carefully following the
> careful installation instructions. I cannot find anything named "vtwm"
> anywhere on my hard drive; I get an error message complaining 
> that vtwm was
> not found; and, sure enough, it doesn't look like any window 
> manager at all
> is running in xfree.
> 
> How do I proceed to address this? Note that I don't really care what
> particular window manager is running; I just want something that's
> functional.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________
> FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com
> Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
> 


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]