xf86-video-nested HOWTO or FAQ?

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 5 18:50:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-12-05 11:32, rcunningham wrote:
> OK, the README says to use this line:
>
>      X -config my.conf -noreset -retro :1
>
> but Cygwin X doesn't support the "-config" option.
>
> Any recommendations for how to make this work?

/usr/bin/X is a symlink to the native DDX.  On Linux this is Xorg, but 
on Cygwin this is XWin.  The xf86-* plugins are meant for the former, so 
you will need to call Xorg instead.

--
Yaakov


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