tkinter and cygwin

[Jason Tishler]

John,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:18:09PM +0900, John wrote:
> I've recently started learning python programming and have been
> experimenting with a few basic GUI programs.  My work system is
> cygwin/Windows XP.  I use X-windows in cygwin but when I run my
> python/tkinter program from an x-win terminal , a normal XP window is
> opened up.

For better or worse, Cygwin's tcltk package is essentially a Win32
build.  So, the behavior you are observing is expected although not
necessarily desired.

Jason

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