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Writing a shell

Started by Xtremehobo Aug 10, 2003 at 11:32 AM 6 replies 300+ views

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Aug 10, 2003 at 11:32 AM

I did a little experiment last night-- I deleted explorer.exe and replaced it with notepad.exe! Rebooted the comp, and it did what I thought it would- no windows shell/desktop/taskbar, but notepad fired up instead! I ctrl+alt+deleted, then ran MSN messenger, but strangly, on my buddy list, none of the people''s nicknames appeared, only their email addresses. How would I solve this issuse if I decided to write my own "explorer.exe" shell?

nes8bit

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nes8bit

Aug 10, 2003 at 12:35 PM

Why would you want to do such a thing?

Aren''t there shell tutorials?

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kordova

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kordova

Aug 10, 2003 at 12:37 PM

quote:
Original post by nes8bit
Aren''t there shell tutorials?

No.

twix

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twix

Aug 10, 2003 at 12:37 PM

quote:
Original post by kordova
quote:
Original post by nes8bit
Aren''t there shell tutorials?

No.

I concur.

Yo_Daher

Aug 10, 2003 at 1:16 PM

The shell forum is a better place to ask

BradDaBug

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BradDaBug

Aug 10, 2003 at 2:15 PM

Would it be possible to get Gnome running under Windows? And I don''t mean in a seperate little "virtual" desktop whatever, I mean GNOME on WINDOWS! That''d be cool.

DakeDesu

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DakeDesu

Aug 10, 2003 at 2:18 PM

quote:
Original post by BradDaBug
Would it be possible to get Gnome running under Windows? And I don''t mean in a seperate little "virtual" desktop whatever, I mean GNOME on WINDOWS! That''d be cool.

Not sure about Gnome, but you can get gtk for windows (the toolkit that Gnome uses)

MindWipe

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MindWipe

Aug 10, 2003 at 2:50 PM

What''s the problem? Make that shell as any windows problem, then edit the register and make it start that instead of explorer.

/MindWipe

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