Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Ralf Habacker" To: , "Sal" Subject: RE: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 23:00:04 +0200 Message-ID: <002301c35eb9$3528e8a0$d66607d5@BRAMSCHE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 10:29 PM > To: Sal > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe > > > On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Sal wrote: > > > Is it possible to use Cygwin and it's respective X server as a replacement > > shell for explorer.exe? > > > > Sal > > I think you're asking multiple questions at once here. I'll try to answer > some of them: > > FYI, I use Cygwin (bash) as a replacement for the Explorer file manager, > for things like getting directory listings, launching programs (using > Windows associations too, with "cygstart"), and keeping track of processes > (even Windows ones, using "ps -W"). It's adequate for most of my daily > needs. > > If you want a graphical file manager, take a look at the KDE for Cygwin > suite of tools. For KDE see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=103072530327420&w=2. General Informations about KDE/cygwin could be found on http://cygwin.kde.org > You can get more information on that by asking on the cygwin-xfree list. > If you're asking whether you can replace the Explorer desktop, taskbar, > and window manager with Cygwin tools/programs, I'm not sure if it's > possible This is one of the goals of the KDE/cygwin project. Cheers Ralf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/