First time installing XFree86

[Harold L Hunt II]

Frédéric,

Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> This is the first time I install XFree86 on Cygwin. I'm running
> all current packages and for now installed the following:
> 
> XFree86-bin-4.3.0-3
> XFree86-bin-icons-4.3.0-2
> XFree86-etc-4.3.0-3
> XFree86-lib-4.3.0-1
> XFree86-prog-4.3.0-5
> XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-5
> XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-11
> XFree86-xwinclip-4.3.0-1
> 
> I skipped XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-3 and XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-3 since
> I'm using the fonts from my Linux partition (mounted with
> Ext2fsd 0.10a) to save some space. I don't know if the segfault
> I get starting xedit is related. All other applications I tried
> work.
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is a symlink to
> /l/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, which is read-only (directories
> dr-xr-xr-x and files -r--r--r--). Since I'm not going to run
> mkfontdir I suppose it should work.

Are you asking us a question in the above?  I didn't see one...

> BTW, will XFree86-xwinclip-4.3.0-1 be recompiled ? It currently
> depends on XFree86-lib-compat.

I am not sure if I will recompile xwinclip.  I might.  I might not.

Can I ask why you are not using the internal version of xwinclip, 
accessed via the '-clipboard' parameter for XWin.exe?

Harold