Try to make minimal XServer

Joseph Miller joseph@tidetamerboatlifts.com
Mon Apr 4 12:44:00 GMT 2005


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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:43 am, Leo wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to run X-apps on the remote Unix and see them on my notebook with
> CygWin XServer.
> The simpliest installation gives workable X, but suffer almost 100M
> I've got the xwin.exe itsef and added its libs (cygfreetype-6.dll
> cygwin1.dll cygX11-6.dll cygz.dll). Now it tries to start but cannot found
> fonts ***
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> ***
> What exactly it need? FAQ says "reinstall X-fonts pakage", but it isn't a
> way in my case :)
> Thanx!

Check out XWinLogon at http://www.calcmaster.net/visual-c++/xwinlogon/ .  I 
packaged the X server and provided a frontend for launching.  It of course is 
not fully featured, but it is enough to start and run a session.

- -Joseph
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