I have been running Cygwin with X on Windows 7 Beta for a few weeks. It works. I think it works rather well considering what it does.
I had to do the rebase/reinstall libncurses thing, but then most things work with only a few problems. First, the startxwin icon succeeds in bringing up the the X server, but not the xterm. But when I run my start script from a Cygwin command prompt it works. Then, the first xterm appears instantly, but the second one takes a while (half a minute?). This seems very strange to me, so perhaps I am imagining things. Also, sometimes, e.g when running M-x grep in emacs, what look like command prompt windows flashes by quickly. They appear and then disappear. This does not really bother me much, but it kills the show-off potential. The audience would womder about those flashing windows and stop paying attention to the good things. Is there any way I could help with fixing these problems? -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: [email protected] This is all you need to know about vi: ESC : q ! RET -- 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/
