-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:15 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:43:33AM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: > >Hello X Cygwin project. I got tired of the only option to use an X > >Server on Windows to be either use the X-Win32 trial (like i would pay > >$200+ for that!) or install the full cygwin environment. > > You don't have to install the "full cygwin environment". The setup.exe > installer allows you to install or not install whatever you please. > > >So what I did was take out the binaries required to run the X Server > >(along with ssh and rsh) and put a Windows GUI interface to it, then > >packaged it with an installer so that the average user could download > >and use it. Please check it out at > >http://www.calcmaster.net/visual-c++/xwinlogon/ and let me know what > >you guys think. My next step is to rebuild the binaries from the > >sources, allow for installation along side of Cygwin without > >interference, and add -mwindows to remove the cmd.exe box that comes up > >with each window. > > Actually you may want to consider that your next step should be setting > up a mailing list to discuss your package. We don't want to clutter > this mailing list with discussion of random other packages that don't > have anything to do with the intended purpose of this mailing list. > > And, for all of the people with fingers poised to fire off a "I want > hear about this interesting package" response to this message -- please > don't bother. You'll have to live with the fact that I am meanly not > allowing this off-topic discussion. > > cgf
I am starting a mailing list at Sourceforge.net for this project. It should be active by tomorrow as there is a delay when you add a mailing list to a project. Sorry for sending to the wrong list, but I did think it would be good to at least announce it here in case others were looking for the same thing. I do realize that you do not have to install the entire cygwin installation but can use setup.exe and customize it, but I just don't think that even that would suffice for what I was looking for. What many users who were only looking for an X Server would not like about that is the whole situation with launching a bash session from batch file and having to work with mounts, etc. That was really what I meant by the Cygwin environment. With my project, those things still exist but are never seen by the user. - -Joseph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBtgoymXZROF+EADURAnTKAJ4uLsvSzpDjQ8or8VcxdCMaKJxErgCfXtP9 KS7FTQhA0ij6Ey9ID1IJZm0= =HEri -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----