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Its nice to know there are people out there who use cygwin. I don't use it much except as a file manager(w/ntemacs) when I'm on the windows box. I have adapted linux for my server so I have the real thing to play on. My version(b20.1)is a little out of date. til next jbk Scott Prive wrote: > Yep... I couldn't live without the Cygwin tools :-) > > There are some things you can't do with the Cygwin XFree port, like spawn X applications, each in their "own" windows on your Windows desktop. This makes X applications look almost as if they were "native" to the host OS. You can do this in Hummingbird Exceed, etc. I can live without that, considering it's gift. > > You can also get KDE runing under Cygwin/XFree. That's not a native KDE port of course. (Personally I like GNOME better, but no one's ported GNOME onto Cygwin/XFree) > > -Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Derek D. Martin [mailto:ddm at pizzashack.org] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:08 PM > To: BLU Users' Group > Subject: X servers for Windows > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey all, > > About once every oh, say, 6 months, someone asks if anyone knows of > any good, free X servers for Windows. IIRC, the answer has always > been basically that no, there aren't any. Well, there is one. It's > called XFree86. No, I'm not making it up. > > If you install Cygwin, which is basically a Unix compatibility layer > for Windows plus a bunch of GNU tools, you can also install XFree86 on > top of it. It only seems to come with TWM as the window manager, but > I imagine you could compile FVWM for it too... > > I've tried it out and it's pretty nice, despite TWM. :) There are a > few minor annoyances with it, mostly to do with the fact that I have > not configured my environment in Cygwin yet. The one biggest problem > so far seems to be that, for some reason (which I haven't investigated > yet), when you start an Xterm it sets $TERM to vt102, and many of > xterm's features do not work with that setting. You can, however, > manually change the TERM variable to xterm, and things work properly. > > I suspect that this also has something to do with the fact that I > haven't set up my environment yet. > > You can get both Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 at > > http://www.cygwin.com/ > > Hope someone finds this useful. > > - -- > Derek Martin ddm at pizzashack.org > - --------------------------------------------- > I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! > GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D > Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu > Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8klSXdjdlQoHP510RAsKIAJ9RPAM+d93evLykj6UYiVkvdSHl2wCeINQj > KNL6Wnbcavz0W7GGIAm2IF4= > =CAs0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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