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Re: How do I start WM?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:11:09AM -0800, Joseph Ess wrote:
>> To: XXX
>> Cc: XXX
>> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 9:36:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: How do I start WM?
There is no need to duplicate this. It's all in the header.
>> 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 ]
cgf
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