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XWin minimal installation
- From: Juan José Gutiérrez de QuevedoPérez <juanjo at iteisa dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:32:35 +0100
- Subject: XWin minimal installation
- Organization: ITEISA
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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)
--
Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo
Director Técnico (juanjo@iteisa.com)
ITEISA (http://www.iteisa.com)