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AW: XWin minimal installation
- From: "Marco Lechner" <marco dot lechner at geographie dot uni-freiburg dot de>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:03:09 +0100
- Subject: AW: XWin minimal installation
- Delivery-date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:58:16 +0100
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Does this also work, if I install the Xmins on the USB-Stick? So that I can
use it like XliveUSB-Stick (like the XliveCD from
http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/?
Marco
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phone +49 (0)761 / 203-3548
email marco.lechner@geographie.uni-freiburg.de
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Von: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]Im Auftrag von Juan José Gutiérrez
de Quevedo Pérez
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. März 2005 22:33
An: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Betreff: XWin minimal installation
This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes.
I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb),
and have placed it in the following address:
http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/
(xmins-->XWin Minimal Installation)
What I've done basically is take the necessary cygwin and X/Cygwin
files and package them in a convenient (and small, I might add) way,
so that I can carry it around in a usb stick, or download it in a short
time from the internet in case of need.
I know it's not a full X/Cygwin server (most extensions are not
working, like xkb or xfixes), but it's enough to i.e. run a remote
gnome session or start some programs through ssh in a remote host.
There are some things I don't actually like about how it has turned
out, actually, the main being that it doesn't support xkb(it always
said couldn't load keymap, I think it's because of the binary-
mounting /tmp thingy) and that it is needing windows scripting host
right now to ask for a host to query. For the later the solution would
be to create a frontend to allow selecting most of the xserver options
such as -query -indirect, etc... This frontend would also allow me to
delete all those awfull entries from the start menu (there are 9 right
now)
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Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo
Director Técnico (juanjo@iteisa.com)
ITEISA (http://www.iteisa.com)