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RE: Recommended packages?
- To: "Harold Hunt" <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>,"Cygx \(E-mail\)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Recommended packages?
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:14:03 -0400
> I am listing the following packages as necessary in my How-To document:
>
> xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xterm.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2
>
> With those packages I can get a full-screen X/Server up and
> running (albeit,
> with really wacky colors), and Xterm works.
The colors problem will fixed once we have multi-windowing working.
For multiwindowing, users will not need to download the X-servers
binaries, HOPEFULLY, only replacing xf_dx.dll with a newer one
would be ebough. It will use colors and depth whatever will be set for your
widnows.
>
> Should I be recommending other packages, such as:
> xfree86-4.0-Prog.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xnest.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xprt.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xvfb.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-twm.tar.bz2
They are not MUST, but nice to have. That is why I packed them in separate
archives.
>
> Should I recommend one of the contributed X/Servers?
> X-servers-v-1.0.-exe.tar.bz2
Only for Windows 95/98, but it works on NT/2000 too without wakey colors
problems.
>
> Please include a description of any package that I should recommend, as I
> can't seem to figure out what most of these packages are for; for example,
> xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2 includes vtwm.exe, but there is a
> package named twm
> as well, so, what the heck is the twm package for?
I would recommend mxterm, which in contrib directory. It's MOTIF scrollbar
makes it easy to use.
Suhaib
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com