Re: Tcl/Tk wish and Cygwin/X

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Markus Jung wrote:
> I have a strange effect with my cygwin/x environment.
> I've downloaded a Tcl/Tk application called secpanel. secpanel is a 
> application tho manage ssh connection with a x-window interface.
> Now, my problem is if I start the secpanel application with wish, it won't 
> come up in my windowmaker x-environment. It comes up in my
> normal XP environment an thats not the way I want it. I need this 
> application in my x-window environment.

Search the archives for tcl/tk and X.  It comes up every blue moon, but 
cygwin's tcl/tk package is really only there as a prerequisite for the 
insight debugger.  Which, if you're debugging an X app -- or any 
embedded app for, say, Red Hat eCOS -- you want the debugger to appear 
as a native Windows app.  No X server.

So, cygwin's tk package is MSWin, not X.

There was some talk about providing a split personality version of tk 
(either X or MSWin, like XEmacs is) -- but that talk only got to the 
dabbling stage.  The current maintainer of tcl/tk, cgf, is 
understandably not enthusiastic about embarking on this effort.

However, if somebody else would like to make it happen, cgf might be 
convinced to turn over official maintainership of the package to that 
person.  Maybe.

--
Chuck