Re: KDE (or gnome)

["Francis VIVAT" <francis dot vivat at cetp dot ipsl dot fr>]

Hi,

under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

you create a string value named Shell, and you put what you want in it
(cmd.exe for example).

May be it could be used to load CygWin ? I haven't tried it that way.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Adamson" <stuart.adamson@evolution.net>
To: "'Splatter van Upchuck '" <upchuck@haggis.nl>
Cc: "'cygx '" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: RE: KDE (or gnome)


> > From: Splatter van Upchuck [mailto:upchuck@haggis.nl]
> >
> > What else runs under XFree then?
>
> My windows development environment (for Win32 code, not cygwin code).
> I use Icewm for my window manager, Vi (vim) is my editor of choice,
> gnu make is much better that nmake that ships with visual studio.
> You can always invoke win32 apps from cygwin (some even appear on my
> icewm tool bar).
>
> If you want a web browser, office apps etc then you may as well just
> use the native windows one - they work well.  Cygwin comes in when I
> want a sane development environment, a nice shell (bash or cmd.exe -
> hum, tough choice ;)) and that feeling that I'm working with and not
> fighting against my environment.
>
> Xfree86 also makes a good Xterminal for unix machines.  With a few of the
> patches that have gone in over the last month and native clipboard support
> coming soon (if I knew how to hook into the XEvent queue then merging
> xwinclip and Xwin would be high on my list of things to do) it's very
> usable and free (unlike eXceed, XWin32 etc).
>
>
> Here's a question - can I stop windows from loading explorer on startup
and
> get it to load Xfree86 instead?  I know you could do this under Win95
> - is it still possible under 2000 ?
>
>
> Stuart
>