On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:01, William Anderson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin McDermott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:34 PM > Subject: RE: [scottish] X Server for Win2K > > > > [x server for doze snippage] > > > > How about XF86...check out Cygwin's port :) > > > > <http://www.cygwin.com> > > > > It's not a dawdle to setup...but, then, no more difficult than XF86 on > > Linux...and it works fine with Putty. > > hate to say it, but it was a doddle to set up here - once cygwin + xf86 was > all downloaded, it too about 10 minutes to get it all up and running - I > soon had mozilla 0.9.9, plenty of xterms and so on running off one of my > debian boxes in a nice X server window on my dual head doze 2k box. > > only problem is it defaults to twm - bleh. I suppose getting ximian gnome > or kde working would deflate my 'doddle' argument somewhat :) >
My collegues tell me that (not the most recent) kde compiles under cygwin and works quite well with about the normal amount of effort programmers are prepared to designate to a task before they get bored.. :P Don't know about gnome though. I think there were some ports attempted however I don't ever remember seeing any success stories. Dav > -- > _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned > \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' > =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson > U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
