Cygwin X-Free not installed in mounted root directory

dunkel@ScienceSoft.net dunkel@ScienceSoft.net
Thu Nov 1 17:15:00 GMT 2001


Bingo! Thank you Alexander and Andrew for your help. I did not know that
I could simultaneously mount more than one file system location in the
cygwin file system. So

   mount L:/ /
   mount L:/myDir/cygwin/usr /usr

solved my problem.

ThanX,
Reinhard

>> Is there a shell variable, undocumented XWin command line option, or
any
>> other magic to tell XWin what the root directory of my /usr directory

>> tree is where it can find rgb.txt and the "fonts" directory?
>> (CYGWIN_ROOT does not seem to do the trick and I don't want to change
my
>> root directory mount.) Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>XWin uses the same directory as all cygwin programs. You can adjust
this
>globally with the tool mount.
>But you can also install XWin to every directory and mount /usr/X11R6
to
>that directory. This will keep the root untouched
>
>bya
>        ago



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