On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 20:24, Stephen M. Helms wrote: > Ok, so you love Cygwin and you admit to it freely in a linux mail list. > Here is a tip for you then, install the Xfree86 component of Cygwin > (if you have not already) so that you can run X applications. Then > setup a .bat file (or can be a .cmd for NT, 2K or XP) that will launch > your X environment just the way you like it. Now, you can setup the > shell=cygwin.bat option in win.ini (win95,98) or registry on other > versions. Then next time you logon to Windows you well get X instead of > explorer.
Oh, dear, I hope I haven't committed a major faux pas. Heh. I'll probably install the Xfree86 component on my win98 computer at home... but since my wife and I share that computer and it needs to be usable to her as well as to me, I will leave Explorer on it by default. My own computer runs Linux almost exclusively, except when we need a Windows program that her computer and the shared computer can't run for some reason (not fast enough, not enough memory, etc.). The computer I have at work... Alas, it's a clerical job that I have now (I lost my development job with the dot-decay, and was unable to find another one), and my Windows 98 computer there needs to be usable by my boss, by co-workers, by the IT people at the office, and so on, so having it run X under Cygwin is probably pushing it. I'm sure I'd already be in trouble if they found I was running Cygwin. ;-) I like to think of Cygwin as the Unix I get to use when I'm stuck with Windows. At any rate... that's why I was asking about logging into Cygwin remotely. :-D -- Sliante, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
