Den tors 20 juni 2024 05:07Jens Staal <staal1...@gmail.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 <anrdae...@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... >> >> -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
