Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 22:32:29 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: walkup@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: ice window manager works with DirectX X-Server Message-ID: <20001209223229.A20383@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, walkup@us.ibm.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from walkup@us.ibm.com on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:28:39PM -0500 On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:28:39PM -0500, Bob Walkup wrote: >I recently installed the xfree86 binaries for cygwin, from the tar-files on >the net. It was possible to get up and running right away with the >supplied startxwin.bat file. However, I really wanted a different window >manager, and I like "ice". So I tried to build icewm from the current >icewm source, version 1.0.4. At first the build failed due to errors in >the source-file yapp.cc. The definition of the "timercmp" function is >missing. After some poking around, using grep in the cygwin include >directories, I found that there is a macro for "timercmp" in >/usr/include/w32api/winsock.h. After cutting and pasting the three-line >macro for "timercmp" into yapp.cc, the ice window manager compiled >correctly. Now I am using icewm with xfree86 on cygwin - a very nice >combination. I suspect that having more window managers to choose from >should help increase the popularity of cygwin. Please pass the information >along, and/or make a pre-built icewm available for cygwin users. The mailing list for Cygwin/XFree86 is cygwin-xfree. Please use this mailing list for any questions or observations about this project. Thanks, cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com