Following the Cygwin X-Free86 installation instructions gives me a 300 MB installation directory. But everything works -- great job! With less free disk space available, I removed programming support, fonts I'd never use, and most documentation to get down to a working 40 MB installation. I put the software in a separate directory and mounted it as the cygwin root (mount -b L:/myDir/cygwin /). Works, but I have a reason to keep the cygwin root directory set to L:/ while installing and running the software from L:/myDir/cygwin. I need help to get this to work (or am I just too greedy?).
Now the mount command reports "\cygwindrive\l on / type user (binmode)" and the startxwin.bat contains "SET CYGWIN_ROOT=L:\myDir\cygwin". The bash shell works, but when I start startxwin.bat, it reports "Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'" or font "fixed" not found. Is there a shell variable, undocumented XWin command line option, or any other magic to tell XWin what the root directory of my /usr directory tree is where it can find rgb.txt and the "fonts" directory? (CYGWIN_ROOT does not seem to do the trick and I don't want to change my root directory mount.) Any help would be greatly appreciated! ThanX, Reinhard
