Reducing configuration headaches for cygwin-xfree

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>AFAIK, you wouldn't want to install X without also installing some
>>other things like bash, at least.  I would think you'd want other tools
>>like 'cp', as well.  Since people always complain that the minimal
>>installation for cygwin (which is the default) doesn't have enough
>>stuff in it, I don't really understand why the minimal installation + X
>>would have too much.
>
>One scenario is the stand-alone xserver which just acts as terminal for
>remote access.

How would you manage remote access if you didn't at least have bash,
though?  Run xterm + cmd.exe, maybe?

cgf