Bingo! Thank you Alexander and Andrew for your help. I did not know that I could simultaneously mount more than one file system location in the cygwin file system. So
mount L:/ / mount L:/myDir/cygwin/usr /usr solved my problem. ThanX, Reinhard >> 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! > >XWin uses the same directory as all cygwin programs. You can adjust this >globally with the tool mount. >But you can also install XWin to every directory and mount /usr/X11R6 to >that directory. This will keep the root untouched > >bya > ago
