Packaged X Server for easy use

[David Fraser]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:43:33AM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote:
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>>Hello X Cygwin project.  I got tired of the only option to use an X
>>Server on Windows to be either use the X-Win32 trial (like i would pay
>>$200+ for that!) or install the full cygwin environment.
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>You don't have to install the "full cygwin environment".  The setup.exe
>installer allows you to install or not install whatever you please.
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>>So what I did was take out the binaries required to run the X Server
>>(along with ssh and rsh) and put a Windows GUI interface to it, then
>>packaged it with an installer so that the average user could download
>>and use it.  Please check it out at
>>http://www.calcmaster.net/visual-c++/xwinlogon/ and let me know what
>>you guys think.  My next step is to rebuild the binaries from the
>>sources, allow for installation along side of Cygwin without
>>interference, and add -mwindows to remove the cmd.exe box that comes up
>>with each window.
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>Actually you may want to consider that your next step should be setting
>up a mailing list to discuss your package.  We don't want to clutter
>this mailing list with discussion of random other packages that don't
>have anything to do with the intended purpose of this mailing list.
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>And, for all of the people with fingers poised to fire off a "I want
>hear about this interesting package" response to this message -- please
>don't bother.  You'll have to live with the fact that I am meanly not
>allowing this off-topic discussion.
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Would it be on-topic to discuss this on the win32-x11@sources.redhat.com 
list?
Then people (including Joseph) could be directed there...

David