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Re: Advice on getting window manager, file manager and simple text editor to work
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 20:42:02 -0600
- Subject: Re: Advice on getting window manager, file manager and simple text editor to work
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On 2014-01-31 16:41, Sinkler, Wharton wrote:
I'm trying to recreate the look and feel of a standard Unix X Windows system
on my PC using Cygwin (something resembling the old CDE, or Redhat in
functionality).
I've got Cygwin with X11 and openbox running, but a few problems stubbornly
unresolved:
Openbox doesn't have a dock so if you minimize a window it's just gone.
Openbox is only a window manager, so that is to be expected.
There are suggestions to solve this problem with a toolbar application called
tint2, however the latter doesn't build successfully on my Cygwin installation
(Errors in cmake about compilers not working when in fact they are working just
fine).
As far as standalone panels go, tint2 is available in Ports (built
OOTB), as is fbpanel (my personal favourite).
Another major item is some kind of file manager to run inside the Openbox root
window. Although I've installed the KDE and Gnome items available through cygwin
setup-x86_64.exe, none of the file managers such as Nautilus, Thunar, KDE file
manager etc. appear to be part of those installations.
dolphin, gentoo (the file manager, not the Linux distro),
gnome-commander, mate-file-manager (aka Caja), nautilus, pcmanfm,
Thunar, and xfe are all available in Ports.
I tried downloading a version of rox (rox-2.1.2-cygwin.tar.bz2) but installation
failed (gcc apparently detects multiple incompatible declarations in part of the
code).
Like most X11 desktops, a fairly complete ROX environment is also
available in Ports.
Finally, I'd like a simple editor. Have installed nedit, but get 'UTF8 locale not
supported' followed by Segmentation fault when I execute it.
The message is harmless but otherwise it WFM.
Yaakov
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