Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-28 Thread Ehud Karni
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:43:20 +0100, Steinar Bang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Umali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I captured the screen shots into Paint Shop Pro, and saved the images directly to JPG. I didn't save them into BMP, unfortunately. Once you have saved them as JPEGs, the blurring

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-27 Thread Steinar Bang
Rick Umali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I captured the screen shots into Paint Shop Pro, and saved the images directly to JPG. I didn't save them into BMP, unfortunately. Once you have saved them as JPEGs, the blurring has already occurred. What happens is that sharp transitions are blurred because

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-25 Thread Rick Umali
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 Harold L Hunt II wrote: If you want me to upload them, then please convert the original BMP to a PNG using ImageMagick or some other graphics program ... Note that I prefer PNGs because they do not blur text like JPGs do. I captured the screen shots into Paint Shop Pro,

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Rick, Unfortunately, you will have to recapture the screen shots and store them as PNGs. You only have the original shots in JPG form, so the only format that you have them in has already been run through a lossy compression scheme. This means that the text is irreversibly blurred in these

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Rick, If you want me to upload them, then please convert the original BMP to a PNG using ImageMagick or some other graphics program (ImageMagick is probably the easiest ``convert foo.bmp foo.png''). Alternatively, you can send me links to the BMPs and I will download them, convert them, and

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-23 Thread Rick Umali
Harold: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 Harold L Hunt II wrote: I will really have to add a screenshot of the rootless mode. I put up three screen shots of me using rootless mode: http://members.tripod.com/rick_umali/rootless/ Feel free to grab and reuse however you see fit. I love rootless mode! --

Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread Chris Plonski
I have used Cygwin/XFree86 for a couple of years now almost exclusively for XDMCP. I think it's one of the best products available for this. And now with the new rootless mode, Irix seems quite at home on my PC! However, every time I fire it up in stand-alone mode (non-XDMCP) via the

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, Well, I am one of the developers of Cygwin/XFree86 and until recently I used it almost exclusively for XDMCP, just as yourself. However, I have just started using emacs and xfig under Cygwin/XFree86 to typset some of my homeworks for class. xfig is really the best way to draw finite

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, By the way, if you have not been following the list for the past week, the new ``-rootless'' mode makes it much more convenient to work with a combination of Windows programs, X forwarded windows, and local X windows. For example, I can be using Xfig, emacs, and xterm (for running

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, There are 139 executables in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory of my installation. Granted, most of them are just X and XFree86 utilities and elementary components, but it's more than just XTerm and XEyes. I've compiled the NCAR graphics environment (version 4.2.3) under Cygwin/XFree86.

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread luke . kendall
On 21 Oct, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I also use Cygwin/XFree86 to display X forwarded windows via ssh from other hosts... this is more convenient that XDMCP when the remote host is running some crap WM like CDE, or when XDMCP logins are disabled to save processing resources (like at

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread Randall R Schulz
Luke, Would that mail client be Sylpheed? I looked into it and generally liked what I saw, but the fact that it uses MH style message storage (one file per message!!) led me to decide I could not switch to it. That's far to much storage overhead for me to tolerate since I keep very large

Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

2002-10-21 Thread luke . kendall
On 21 Oct, Randall R Schulz wrote: Would that mail client be Sylpheed? I looked into it and generally liked what I saw, but the fact that it uses MH style message storage (one file per message!!) led me to decide I could not switch to it. That's far to much storage overhead for me