Re: Simple patch to enable stereo visuals in XWin_GL

[Igor Peshansky]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, DRC wrote:

 Hi.  I was wondering who maintains the experimental accelerated GLX
 support in Cygwin/X.  I have a simple patch which enables stereo visuals
 (necessary to support my project, VirtualGL) on systems that support
 stereo.  I'd like to get this patch incorporated into the Cygwin
 distribution of XWin_GL, if possible.

Darrell,

Cygwin/X is basically the X.org tree built for Cygwin.  So you can try
sending your patch to the upstream X.org team.

However, we are currently missing a maintainer for Cygwin/X.  So there
probably won't be a new release of Cygwin/X to pick up the fix, even if
it's accepted into the upstream tree.

Volunteer maintainers welcome.
Igor
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Re: Fw: feedback on a configuration package for X11/ctwm|twm

[Igor Peshansky]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, John S. Urban wrote:

 I have had a good number of friends and associates ask for a copy of a
 directory that sets up and starts X11 with the ctwm or twm window
 manager for CygWin.  Enough so, that I put a copy of the directory into
 a uuencoded file at
   cygstart http://home.comcast.net/~urbanjost/CYGWIN/index.html

This does sound interesting...

 [snip]

 There are a lot of other goodies in the configuration that bring
 often-overlooked cygwin/X11/ctwm|twm features
 to your fingertips, such as ...
 under the menus
  left-mouse--Other Window Managers --
 are options to start almost all the standard window managers in new
 server instances independently or via Xnest.

 I was looking for feedback on whether this is of enough general interest
 that I should spiff it up and turn it into a CygWin package.  I
 believe most of the menu items are self-explanatory; but they introduce
 people new (or not so new) to CygWin to how cygstart(1), dialog(1),
 XNest(1) and other utilities can be integrated with CygWin/X11 features
 too often overlooked to create a very complete user environment.

You should certainly feel free to propose a Cygwin package with your
modifications (as long as it does not overwrite existing configuration).
See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for instructions on packaging for
Cygwin.  Since you are already providing a web site with this information,
you can also add a setup configuration (setup.ini and directory structure)
to allow people to install and test your package directly off your site by
adding it as a mirror in Cygwin setup.

Another option is to try integrating it with the X-startup-scripts and
X-start-menu-icons packages, though I don't recall who maintains them, and
whether they are as maintainer-less as Cygwin/X itself.
Igor
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