Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

["James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>]

Have you actually tried installing the x-server and using it?  It takes a while
to download, but can be used somewhat unobtrusively.

The default startxwin.sh shell script starts xwin in the multiwindow mode,
which means you get a black X icon in the system tray when there are no X
clients, and otherwise each client opens in a fairly normal looking window on
the windows desktop.  If you comment out the xterm invocation in the script,
you mostly don't need to be aware that X is running.  Client windows will just
pop up over the windows desktop.  Put your modified script in /usr/local/bin,
and you are in business.

My advice is to just try X, and see if you might like it, as opposed to going
to huge lengths not to use it.

Jim Phillips


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