cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe

Mon Aug 11 15:51:00 GMT 2003

S. L. wrote:
> Ralf,
> [...]
>>>>>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.
>> [...]
>> I think you and Igor gave a too complicated answer.
> The short one is: yes, one can replace the shell=Explorer.exe from [boot] in
> system.ini with cygwin application. In fact, I tested it with my favourite
> shortcut line that launches rxvt.
> So, after the login completed, there was only my background, no desktop, no
> bars but only the rxvt window. The problems with this approach are:
> 1. the application used as shell must also be able to
> logoff/shutdown/restart/standby/restart in MS-Dos mode; or a batch file that starts after the (in
> my case) rxvt window, the corresponding window dialog.
There is a cygwin 'shutdown' command. It lets you do everything except 
restart in MS-DOS mode.
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