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Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running
"James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin@yahoo.com> writes:
> Have you actually tried installing the x-server and using it? It takes a while
Yes. I just wanted to stay away from extra stuff. But as you
surmised, not if it requires huge energy output.
> 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
This sounds like a handy way to go at it. I wasn't clever enough to
think to edit the startx script.
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