When I first downloaded and installed cygwin my ulterior motive was - "if there are free complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers, Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of software for X/Win on Windows." My ulterior was, where I would prove to those charging an arm and some toes and yet would not do a proper job in what they sell.
But to my dismay, cygwin as installed would not work. It kept giving me "cygwin1.dll not found". Some two months later I made another attempt. Somehow, somewhere, somewhat, the installation went as smoothly as sailboat gliding down the calm Casco Bay on a warm summer day. My impression was my success was due to my visiting a till now yet unrecallable site which preset all the download choices so that it knew that my motive was to use X/win. Don't you hate it after a PC shop (which should remain nameless) had acquired a venerable mini- mainframe shop (which too should remain unnamed but whose founder once berated that the difference between Unix and his venerable system was the dismally small number of shelves it takes to house all of Unix manuals) - that when I tried to access some information on the acquiree's product, the links point me to the acquirer's site, which in turn pointed me back to the acquiree web site. Not directly but, going through the pretense of navigating a few links before lopping the ball back-and-forth onto each other's court. Fortunately, that PC shop was itself later acquired by a more coherently customer-focused company. This convoluted and obsfuscating email illustrate my frustration getting information and education about how to set up cygwin properly. That when setting up to use cygwin/X-Free, my proper attitude should be - it is cygwin that I am setting up and X-Free is a beneficial ported software. There might be, but it is not within my ineffable capability to find a unified coherent instructional site on cygwin applications. Despite the fact that not having cygwin/X, cygwin is nearly useless for most people, who seems to have similar motivation (or mismotivation) to mine. In my opinion, the orthogonality maintained between cygwin information and cygwin/X information is an unhelpful myth for participants like myself. But I have to bear in mind, that cygwin presents itself to me as a loosely confederated people like me, unlike the more tight-knit Tomcat, Eclipse or NetBeans projects with major interest sponsors behind them. On the other hand in cygwin, probably but not necessarily and not limited to people struggling between embattled personal lives and enthusiasm for communal software. Bearing in mind, therefore, it is therefore not free ware. It costs me to find and look and experiment. Therefore, I recommend that the confederation of cygwin users and porters collaborate to maintain a dependency chart page - which shows for example, if I wanted cygwin/X, what modules could be recommended selected when running setup.exe. Also, many emails seem to point to the confusion between an XDM and an XWM. That people installed cygwin/X but their xterms and xclock just piled up unmoveably at the top left corner of the X frame. This amount of confusion does point to a need for a more unified web site and cygwin organisation. If you (the venerable leaders of cygwin, i.e.) agree and need help, "hineni". -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Ormerod Sent: Thu, September 15, 2005 7:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Can't display remote clients Apologies if I'm pumping out too much information on my problems. Have gone through the User Guide in search of inspiration. At the end in the section on Displaying Remote Clients - Telnet, I thought I'd found a possibility - sadly no. However, the results might provide a cue as to why my install / system is failing to work. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
