Hi, I am not subscribed to this mailing list but I would like to give some feedback anyway. Please Cc: any responses to me.
I am testing the Cygwin/XFree server to use it as a remote display for my Unix box which runs xdm: XWin -broadcast. So in the installer I choose to de-install "All", and to install *only* XFree86-xserv. I noted that the installer installed a lot of things that are not necessary for that, such as header files, info files, terminfo stuff, static link libraries, xterm, sh, twm, etc. And it downloaded a lot more which it apparently did not even install, such as bash, diff, diffutils, fileutils, etc. I could also do without all those megabytes of fonts, since I have a perfectly ok font server, but apparently no way to specify it for the X server. I also downloaded xwinclip-test06, but that would not work because the X server refused the connection, and I could find no way to do the equivalent of "xhost +localhost" from its command line. So in short, it would be nice to have the installer *just* the files that are required to run "XWin -broadcast", and nothing more. That would be the XWin.exe itself, the dlls it really requires, rgb.txt, fonts if no font server can be used, and maybe a few other files I am forgetting. All that doesn't need to take the current 63.263.779 bytes (32.158.116 bytes downloaded). Cheers, -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The evil eye is caused by the black \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- tongue - Tom Poes, "Het boze oog", 4456.
