Using only the X server of Cygwin
Hi, I am not subscribed to this mailing list but I would like to give some feedback anyway. Please Cc: any responses to me. I am testing the Cygwin/XFree server to use it as a remote display for my Unix box which runs xdm: XWin -broadcast. So in the installer I choose to de-install All, and to install *only* XFree86-xserv. I noted that the installer installed a lot of things that are not necessary for that, such as header files, info files, terminfo stuff, static link libraries, xterm, sh, twm, etc. And it downloaded a lot more which it apparently did not even install, such as bash, diff, diffutils, fileutils, etc. I could also do without all those megabytes of fonts, since I have a perfectly ok font server, but apparently no way to specify it for the X server. I also downloaded xwinclip-test06, but that would not work because the X server refused the connection, and I could find no way to do the equivalent of xhost +localhost from its command line. So in short, it would be nice to have the installer *just* the files that are required to run XWin -broadcast, and nothing more. That would be the XWin.exe itself, the dlls it really requires, rgb.txt, fonts if no font server can be used, and maybe a few other files I am forgetting. All that doesn't need to take the current 63.263.779 bytes (32.158.116 bytes downloaded). Cheers, -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The evil eye is caused by the black \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- tongue - Tom Poes, Het boze oog, 4456.
Re: Using only the X server of Cygwin
On Sun 07 Jul 2002 at 15:35:22 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: However, it SHOULD be possible -- and checking the ml archives on this will help -- to create a custom 'setup.ini' script or pseudo-package that setup.exe can read, to install ONLY what you want -- but this will take a little work on your part. Again, check the archives. Thanks, I will do that. I was indeed alerted by Slashdot to cygwin/xfree. I remember trying it some time ago, but back then it was more difficult to get going, if I got it going at all (I don't remember exactly). So in that view, there is a lot of progress :-) These are all part of the 'Base' category. If you explicitly de-selected specific items -- even if they are in the 'Base' category -- then setup shouldn't even download them. There may be a bug in setup.exe's handling of the Base category. Sorry about that. At least I am glad it did not install them, since that saves me the trouble of verifying that they are really not necessary. (*) that is, cygwin-xfree should work OOB on a standalong machine without any external font server, at least by default. Do we really want a windows newbie to understand oh, I also need to install the fonts. Of course not -- we do that by default IF the user installs X. [Linux distros do this too, you know -- if you install XFree86 on Red Hat, you *will* get the fonts.] You have a point. But I also think that there will be lots of people who would like cygwin/xfree to be a replacement for XWin-32 or other similar products, so some configuration preset for that would come in handy. --Chuck Thanks, -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The evil eye is caused by the black \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- tongue - Tom Poes, Het boze oog, 4456.
