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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> I've been wondering what to do about the ancillary packages for X in
> the cygwin distro.

Thanks for looking into this.

> X-startup-scripts:
> 
> I guess something needs to be done with this, if these scripts are the
> normal way for starting the X server

I never use them, myself, but perhaps others find them useful; I would
hesitate to drop them.

> Attached is patch for the xinit package, which adds the scripts
> startxwin.bat, startxwin.sh, startxdmcp.bat in a rather simple-minded
> way (these scripts have been updated to use the correct paths for a
> modular X server)
> 
> X-startup-scripts would then become empty.
> 
> I'm not totally sure this is the right approach, though.

I would prefer to keep these separate rather than shoving them into xinit.

> X-start-menu-icons:
> 
> This needs some attention as well to update the paths from /usr/X11R6/.
> 
> In a modular X world, though, it might make sense to do some refactoring
> so this is a tool for adding/removing start menu icons which is used
> in the specific package install/remove scripts, rather than installing
> all the icons at once.

I've thought about such a thing as well for GUI programs in general, as
a new feature to cygport.  I'll have to look into this further.


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports
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