Cygwin/X: KDE Desktop

[Maarten Hoes]

Hi,


I tried a few different Desktop Environments for comparison. At least
GNOME-Openbox, KDE-Openbox, Plasma, and MATE give me a black screen and no
taskbar/menu, pop-up menu with right-click on background, etc., but I can
start applications on them if I open a Cygwin prompt through the 'Cygwin64
Terminal' icon by doing (for example) "export DISPLAY=:0.0 ; xterm".

However, the LXDE and Openbox desktops do give me the familiar things (like
a start-menu, right-click on desktop pop-up menu).

I have no idea where to even begin with troubleshooting the issue (of
getting KDE or GNOME working). Could it be as simple as some packages that
have not been installed ? I installed these desktops by selecting the
packages listed on the Cygwin/X website during the overall Cygwin
installation (setup-x86_64.exe).

Any and all help is appreciated.



- Maarten


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:38 PM Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> When I run XLaunch and choose single window (or use the KDE 'Plasma'
> shortcut), I get a black window (or grey, when also supplying '-retro'),
> but I am not getting a desktop like when I do when I run KDE on Linux (KDE
> taskbar/menu, pop-up menu with right-click on background, etc.). Is there a
> way to do this ?  Or am I missing something obvious here ?
>
>
> Any and all help is appreciated,
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> - Maarten
>