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Re: KDE (or gnome)
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: Francis VIVAT <francis dot vivat at cetp dot ipsl dot fr>, Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>, 'Splatter van Upchuck ' <upchuck at haggis dot nl>
- Cc: 'cygx ' <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:10:48 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: KDE (or gnome)
is the program that is named here laucnhed after winnt
logon or is it replacing it ?
> 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.
>
> CU
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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
> >
>
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