Soong, SylokeJ wrote: > 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.
when it's all said and done it's pretty simple, go to www.cygwin.com, run setup to install base packages. Run setup again to install X packages. I think that the pages http://x.cygwin.com/ and www.cygwin.com and http://cygwin.com/docs.html provide pretty straightforward instructions. Downloading and Installing Install Cygwin/X now Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. Using Cygwin/X is documented in a step-by-step manner, with lots of pictures and examples, in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Please notice, however, that Cygwin/X contains many general-purpose programs, libraries, and functions that are part of all X distributions. It is therefore beyond the scope of the Cygwin/X User's Guide to document all of these X Window System components. To find documentation, for example, for setxkbmap one should consult the generic X documentation such as the SETXKBMAP(1) manual page. You could always, of course, do a Google search for setxkbmap, which finds the manual page mentioned above. reid -- 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/
