Re: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86

["Jeremy Wilkins" <jeb at jeremywilkins dot freeserve dot co dot uk>]

Thanks, but this is kind of aimed at people who only want Cygwin/XFree for
just the XDMCP stuff (ie to get to another machine), which, from watching
the list, seems to be quite a few people.

Thanks

jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Bradford" <mbradford@bahaigear.com>
To: "Jeremy Wilkins" <jeb@jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86


> Well, one way to get around needing to do any of that is to make a
shortcut
> with the command line being:
>
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -login -c "XWin.exe -query
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -fullscreen [-whatever]"
>
> with the working directory being c:\cygwin\bin
>
> This will leave a blank CygWin window which can be safely closed.
>
>     - Matt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Wilkins" <jeb@jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:24 PM
> Subject: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've put together a very simple frontend to launch XWin with when used
to
> > connect to XDMCP. The front end will handle passing font paths (and will
> > convert from windows to cygwin style paths) and the path to the colours
> > database. This means that XWin can be moved out of the directory
structure
> > it would normally expect, so can be used as a normal windows app, just
one
> > dependant on cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll.
> >
> > I've got a couple of know issues with it though,
> >
> > 1) XWin insists on the existance of a /tmp/.X11-unix folder, are there
any
> > commandline options, or compile options I can use to change this (so I
can
> > put it in %TEMP%/.X11-unix).
> >
> > 2) The keyboard is always set to US. I've not managed to use the command
> > line option to change the keyboard layout, could someone please explain
> this
> > (where are the xmodmap files I should be using). Once I can do this, I
can
> > make the frontend detect the windows keyboard layout and set Xwin
> > accordingly. At the moment XKeyboard extension is disabled because
> xkbcomp,
> > etc isn't available.
> >
> > Finally could someone please clarify where I stand on licenses, what
> license
> > is Cygwin under, what is cygwin/xfree86 under, can I put my frontend
under
> > GPL without conflicting with the other components.
> >
> > http://www.jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk/extend/index.html
> >
> > Any comments would be appreciated
> >
> > Jeb
> >
> >
>
>