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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:58:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: Cygwin/X as Shell replacement?
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Den tors 20 juni 2024 05:07Jens Staal <staal1978 AT gmail DOT com> skrev:

> 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.
>

I did a quick search and apparently can those metro-style apps be launched
in a way similar to Chrome apps (explorer + url)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31798580/launch-metro-style-apps-using-powershell

So one could probably just make some script files to launch those.


> 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 AT yandex DOT 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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