Re: XWin minimal installation
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Steven Boothe wrote: > Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Pérez wrote: > > This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes. > > > > I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb), > > and have placed it in the following address: > > http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/ > > (xmins-->XWin Minimal Installation) > > Ooo aa! > > I'm wondering if this can be used to create a bundled application package > and hence install script for apps dependent on Cygwin/X11??? That would be > very nice indeed! Use Xming for this purpose. http//wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki I vote strongly against making some installations or bundled packages of Cygwin/X because it will interfere with a already or later installed cygwin. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
AW: XWin minimal installation
Does this also work, if I install the Xmins on the USB-Stick? So that I can use it like XliveUSB-Stick (like the XliveCD from http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/? Marco - Marco Lechner office: Department of Physische Geographie University of Freiburg Werderring 4 D-79085 Freiburg Germany phone +49 (0)761 / 203-3548 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Pérez Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. März 2005 22:33 An: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Betreff: XWin minimal installation This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes. I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb), and have placed it in the following address: http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/ (xmins-->XWin Minimal Installation) What I've done basically is take the necessary cygwin and X/Cygwin files and package them in a convenient (and small, I might add) way, so that I can carry it around in a usb stick, or download it in a short time from the internet in case of need. I know it's not a full X/Cygwin server (most extensions are not working, like xkb or xfixes), but it's enough to i.e. run a remote gnome session or start some programs through ssh in a remote host. There are some things I don't actually like about how it has turned out, actually, the main being that it doesn't support xkb(it always said couldn't load keymap, I think it's because of the binary- mounting /tmp thingy) and that it is needing windows scripting host right now to ask for a host to query. For the later the solution would be to create a frontend to allow selecting most of the xserver options such as -query -indirect, etc... This frontend would also allow me to delete all those awfull entries from the start menu (there are 9 right now) -- Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Director Técnico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ITEISA (http://www.iteisa.com)
Re: XWin minimal installation
Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Pérez wrote: > This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes. > > I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb), > and have placed it in the following address: > http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/ > (xmins-->XWin Minimal Installation) > > What I've done basically is take the necessary cygwin and X/Cygwin > files and package them in a convenient (and small, I might add) way, > so that I can carry it around in a usb stick, or download it in a short > time from the internet in case of need. I don't see anywhere that you provide the source to the utilities in your binary package. This is required under the GPL. As far as I know you're not allowed to just say "get them from cygwin.com", you must offer them from the same place as the binaries. Brian
Re: XWin minimal installation
Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Pérez wrote: This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes. I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb), and have placed it in the following address: http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/ (xmins-->XWin Minimal Installation) Ooo aa! I'm wondering if this can be used to create a bundled application package and hence install script for apps dependent on Cygwin/X11??? That would be very nice indeed! The application I have in mind is Scribus. Which we finally have a nice recipe for installing version 1.2.1 via Cygwin at: http://wiki.scribus.net/Installing_Scribus_on_Win32 But I know it could become even more accessible to an even wider audience if we could create a fairly small bundled installer type of package. My first initial tests came out way to large in size do to all the many files that were included but didn't need to be. :) Excellent work!
XWin minimal installation
This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes. I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb), and have placed it in the following address: http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/ (xmins-->XWin Minimal Installation) What I've done basically is take the necessary cygwin and X/Cygwin files and package them in a convenient (and small, I might add) way, so that I can carry it around in a usb stick, or download it in a short time from the internet in case of need. I know it's not a full X/Cygwin server (most extensions are not working, like xkb or xfixes), but it's enough to i.e. run a remote gnome session or start some programs through ssh in a remote host. There are some things I don't actually like about how it has turned out, actually, the main being that it doesn't support xkb(it always said couldn't load keymap, I think it's because of the binary- mounting /tmp thingy) and that it is needing windows scripting host right now to ask for a host to query. For the later the solution would be to create a frontend to allow selecting most of the xserver options such as -query -indirect, etc... This frontend would also allow me to delete all those awfull entries from the start menu (there are 9 right now) -- Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Director Técnico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ITEISA (http://www.iteisa.com)
