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Re: Cygwin X-Free not installed in mounted root directory
- Subject: Re: Cygwin X-Free not installed in mounted root directory
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:18:13 +0100 (CET)
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 dunkel@ScienceSoft.net wrote:
> Is there a shell variable, undocumented XWin command line option, or any
> other magic to tell XWin what the root directory of my /usr directory
> tree is where it can find rgb.txt and the "fonts" directory?
> (CYGWIN_ROOT does not seem to do the trick and I don't want to change my
> root directory mount.) Any help would be greatly appreciated!
XWin uses the same directory as all cygwin programs. You can adjust this
globally with the tool mount.
But you can also install XWin to every directory and mount /usr/X11R6 to
that directory. This will keep the root untouched
bya
ago
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