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RE: Windowed server and LyX?
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: Windowed server and LyX?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:21:10 -0500
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> I just stumbeled upon XFree86 for Cygwin when I now needed to
> do a reinstall of my Cygwin environment (system crash).
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> The documentation says that work is in progress to provide a server
> that will be displayed in a window, not just full screen mode. The
> screenshot shows such an X-server, doesn't it? Does that mean
> that the current version can be started in a window, and if so, how?
XFree86 works only in Fullscreen mode and only on Windows NT.
The screen capture is of x-server-v-1.0 from "contrib" directory which works
on Win 9x too, but is a bit slow. One of these days I am going to put a
note
that screen capture is from x-server-v-1.0 from contrib directory.
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> I would also like some guidance as to where to turn to get some
> information about certain porting projects.
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> I have used Cygwin in combination with ReflectionX from WRQ and
> MiKTeX to run LyX for Win32.
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> Does anyone know if there is a TeX port available for Cygwin, and
> if someone has sucessfully compiled LyX for Cygwin/XFree86?
Not of someone I know.
Suhaib
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> - Idar Tollefsen
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