rootless cygwin emacs howto?

[Jason Dufair]

There is really nothing to it.  Just get a recent version of X, run it
with -multiwindow (and, I recommend, -clipboard), and run Emacs.  Voila!
Not sure if the currently packaged XWin.exe supports -multiwindow, but
the latest "Server Test Series", available from the Cygwin/XFree86
website, will do what you need (and is pretty stable).

Thomas L Roche <tlroche@us.ibm.com> writes:

> I've been running NTEmacs for awhile, and Cygwin for awhile, but have
> only occasionally used X. I'd like to cut over to the cygwinized
> Emacs if I can keep a single desktop, i.e. run X rootless. Could
> someone point me to a howto illustrating setup and running of the
> cygwin Emacs on X, rootlessly? (If possible, please also CC: me.)
> Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I tried Googling
>
> cygwin emacs rootless
>
> (i.e. not the phrase) and saw only claims that it can be done.

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