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Subject: Re: Cygwin/X as Shell replacement?
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Sorry for top posting. GMail on phone.

I guess the issue of Explorer dependencies for some Windows apps would be
an issue for all shell replacements. That issue was not discussed in the
Wikipedia article, but might indeed be an issue.

The thing that would be cool if one can replace Explorer with an X11
session is that all of a sudden, there are lots of different user
interfaces available.

Den tors 20 juni 2024 02:35Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> skrev:

> Greetings, Jens Staal!
>
> > Dear all,
>
> > I recently read the Wikipedia article on alternative shells in Windows.
>
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows
>
> > And it got me wondering: can you start a DE or WM running under Cygwin/X
> as
> > an alternative Windows shell?
>
> Can you? Yes. But, unless you run Explorer as shell, all the Metro
> interface
> will be unavailable. This includes, across many, all the configuration
> windows.
>
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Thursday, June 20, 2024 03:28:05
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
>

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